ABSTRACT

The correlation between the socio-economic and the spatial organisation systems enabled the identification of sustainable principles that cannot be neglected.

1.1 Methodology

The socio-economic characterisation of both communities was assembled through a bibliographic research of geographic, ethnographic and historical studies that enabled to characterise the cultural and social organisation forms of these communities, thus highlighting the functional structure that binds the livelihood of these groups and the way these vernacular settlements were inhabited. As to the spatial and structural analysis there were employed different spatial analysis tools.