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traditional agriculture, central places, and postdisaster urban relocation in Peru 1
Author(s) -
OLIVERSMITH ANTHONY
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1977.4.1.02a00060
Subject(s) - relocation , settlement (finance) , safer , central city , geography , sociology , socioeconomics , economic geography , business , computer security , computer science , programming language , finance , payment
In the aftermath of the 1970 earthquake‐avalanche disaster in Peru, survivors of the devastated city of Yungay refused to let their city be relocated in a safer area. Research suggests that as well as having strong emotional ties to the site of their destroyed home, the survivors' refusal to relocate demonstrates a rational assessment of the functional prerequisites for urban growth. These folk perceptions of urban settlement parallel closely the basic formulations of central place theory from geography.