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The persistence of older forms is not, therefore, exclusively a result of the persistence of the constructions themselves (shapes). Nevertheless, up until the 1990s, researchers still struggled to explain this persistence without resorting to the notion of continuum. There is an uninterrupted link between past and present, the result of multi-generational memory or, in the longer term, of the persistence of material remains, functions and the cadastral plan (Robert 2003a). This approach excludes the possibility of temporal hiatuses or non-linear temporalities.

Nevertheless, these early morphologists were well aware of the existence of change. This is evident in reactions to Meitzen’s suggestion that 19th-century parcel arrangements were a direct reflection of divisions established centuries earlier. Marc Bloch drew inspiration from Meitzen’s work, but situated his regressive method within a more dynamic view of history. Refusing to see the past as a still photograph, Bloch preferred a cinematic metaphor: