Wide Urban World
Showing posts with label Urban universals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban universals. Show all posts
Monday, February 22, 2016

Cities as social reactors

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Fig 1. Inka storehouses Some traits of cities seem universal, shared by all cities, large and small, past and present. Neighborhood o...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Why do all cities have neighborhoods?

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I've been writing about urban neighborhoods for several years now. I have made the claim that all cities have neighborhoods. In fact, ...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

What are universal urban features?

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1.Walled neighborhoods in Chang'an What characteristics are shared by all cities, from the earliest to today, and around the world? ...
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Michael E. Smith
I am an archaeologist who works on Aztec sites and Teotihuacan.I do comparative and transdisciplinary research on cities, and also households, empires, and city-states. I view my discipline, archaeology, as a Comparative Historical Social Science.
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I am Professor in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change at Arizona State University; Affiliated Faculty in the School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning; Fellow, ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems; Core Faculty in the Center for Social Dynamics Complexity. Also, I have an affiliation with the Colegio Mexiquense in Toluca, Mexico.
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