ABSTRACT
The final chapter, ‘Quantifying the Urban Network,’ will focus on settlement size. One of the techniques that will be used is rank-size analysis. We will analyse the three provinces – Baetica, Lusitania and Citerior – separately in order to obtain a better understanding of region-specific settlement size distributions. In this final chapter, we will turn to the geographical distribution of the sizes of settlements. This geographical distribution will grant us insight into the factors behind the development of the different size tiers. Moreover, we will be able to observe areas with low or even no urbanism. These areas will be further analysed by regarding geographical and climatological conditions, precipitation, altitude, terrain ruggedness and cultivable land unfavourable to urbanism. Based on this analysis, we can locate the lacunas in our own settlement system and point out the areas that need future research to establish the nature of the settlement system in these regions.
