Settlement and transport network diversification and complexity in Honduras

• Authors: Anna Grzegorczyk

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to examine the level of diversity and complexity of the Honduras settlement and transport networks and to identify processes responsible for the development of such networks. According to the analysis, the networks disproportion is not high in Honduras but it can increase in the future due to the attraction of the core areas, emergence of growth poles, migrations and concentration of international trade. The settlement and transport networks are hierarchised.

Keywords

EN

settlement network; transport network; Honduras; Landsat ETM+ images interpretation; chorèmes spatial model; Zipf's rule

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 315-323

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Anna Grzegorczyk

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Institute of Regional and Global Studies

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2034517