URBAN ORIGIN AND FORM IN CENTRAL NEW-YORK

Present-day urban centers in central New York embody processes of European-American colonization in the region after the American Revolution. Urban framework comprises four types of villages, all of which resulted from forces such as exogenously imposed settlement patterns, endogenic refinement of those patterns, regional cultural traditions brought by migrants, necessity for environmental adaptation, and continual integration of the region with the evolving American core. -Author