Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning

2010 Edition
| Editors: Klaus-Jürgen Evert, Edward B. Ballard (deceased), David J. Elsworth, Icíar Oquiñena, Jean-Marie Schmerber, Robert E. Stipe (deceased)

5513 settlement [n] (1)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76435-9_12601

constr. eng. (Sinking of buildings or structures; ► ground settlement);s hincamiento [m] de edificios (► asentamiento [AL], ► subsidencia [Es, CO]); f effondrement [m] de bâtiments (► subsidence, ► tassement) ;g Absenkung [f] (2) (Absacken von Bauwerken; ► Senkung).

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