ABSTRACT
At any time the settlement landscape which envelops people is a legacy of relict and evolving features. While newly developing landscapes can never escape the restraining impact of past legacies, an appreciation of the significance in themselves of present and more recent trends is important. Attitudes by the current generation to their settlement inheritance, for example, have a significant impact on the shape and fate of this heritage. Modifications to the landscape – incrementally adding to the legacy or in part replacing it – occur within these parameters of awareness. Thus the general rise in environmental or landscape consciousness has had profound implications for the most recent phase of settlement history-in-the-making.
