This article deals with the spatial land arrangement and settlement pattern of historic rural areas, basedon geometrical analysis of built-up areas and field systems. The sites were evaluated through the lens ofmedieval agricultural colonization and land tenure, incorporating local and imported settlement rights -emphyteusis. The quest for a method based on land surveyors' use of a knotted cord is followed by aninterest in cadastre border delineations, field systems, and village patterns. This benefits from historicalland registers and cadastres. Within regional planning, they can be used for urban regeneration, especiallyin partially abandoned rural areas affected by the disruption of patterns.
Martin Cernansky (Wed,) studied this question.
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