The main aim of the chapter is to analyze the preserved forms of the Josephine
villages in the area of former Galicia. After a short introduction concerning legal aspects
of delimitation of new villages, the newly created forms of settlements were interpreted.
The analyses covered the following forms: street-type villages (including streetplane)
and multi-way (including concentric-radian, checkered lattice and cross-radian)
villages. The next part of the chapter depicts the remains of former rural settlements of
the Josephine villages against the background of the contemporary settlement network.
The comparative analysis covers the processes of changes in small rural settlements on
Polish and Ukrainian territory. Cartographic materials and source documents obtained
during queries at the National Archive in Krakow, the State Archive in Przemyśl and
the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv were used in the realization of
the assumed research problem. The main source materials used in the chapter are: plans
of the Josephine villages from the end of the 18th century, the Josephine Metric, the
Franciscan Metric and the Galician Cadastre. In depicting the current state of preservation
of the small rural settlements, publicly available topographic maps, aerial photographs and
field inventory were used
