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Human settlements have been founded for various reasons: as seats of government and the administration of the national territory and its subdivisions, for worship, for defense, for medical cures and for recreation and sports. The economic role of settlements has been that of land cultivation, of resource extraction, manufacturing, and in the case of settlements qualifying as cities, of markets.
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Beckmann, M.J. (1999). Urban Systems. In: Lectures on Location Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03762-1_12
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