The changes that the world has undergone over the pasttwo decades have created a dramaticall altered global order which requires a new undertanding of the role of traditional settlements in the reconstruction of history. Using a model which is based on recognizing the historic inevitability to dominant relationships between the so-called First and Third Worlds, this talk will review the different historic phrases relevant to the study of such traditional settlements: the insular period, the colonial period, the era of independence and nation building, and the present era of globalization. Four accompanying settlement forms - the indigenous vernacular, the hybrid, the modern or pseudo-modern, and the postmodern - are identified and analyzed in relationship to their historic contexts.
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