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This article contrasts two different modes of rural areas. There is the US-style rural, where the homesteads are widely separated. The house is on the farm, a
by monknomo 4y ago
This article contrasts two different modes of rural areas.
There is the US-style rural, where the homesteads are widely separated. The house is on the farm, and far from the neighbors.
Then there is the European (and really most of the rest of the world) style of rural, where there is a dense little village and the farmers travel to their fields, rather than live in the middle of the fields.
Why is that, even without cars?
- stevesearer 4y agoIt likely would have to do with how land was distributed to owners in the US compared to how it was distributed in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Township_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Township_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_township https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_township