CHAPTERS FROM A DOWRY OF A TOWN

Abstract

The examination of a settlement for any purpose and at any time, and the results of that
examination, can only be considered relevant if the complex interactions of the spatial
structure at any given time are taken into account. Of course, this system of interactions
and their characteristic factors prevail in different ways in each era. The relationship
between man and nature is eternal. In the course of social evolution, this relationship has
constantly changed in quality and intensity. The relationship between early man and nature
has been replaced by the relationship between society and nature. In economic terms, the
resources of the natural environment, together with capital and productive forces, must be
taken into account as a factor of production. Natural space plays an important role in the
development and evolution of settlements. However, it should also be stressed that the
interaction between natural and social space can be understood in terms of the
development of productive forces and the settlement system, and the interaction between
the settlement and natural space. It is only in this context that we can really understand the
settlement of the Mures alluvium and the resettlement of Orosháza after the Turkish
devastation.