Fig 1 - Modern gated community Gated communities are a hot topic of research and discussion in urban studies. As summarized in a recent ...

Teotihuacan, Mexico Ever since the first cities, people have been moving into town from the countryside. The earliest cities in southern ...

Idealized Chinese Cosmogram Capital Ten years ago a group of archaeologists published a collection of papers titled "Were Cities Bui...

Fig. 1 - view of Arcosanti The other day my wife and I visited Arcosanti, the futuristic urban development in the desert an hour north o...

People’s views of shantytowns—areas of informal settlement, often by squatters—have varied greatly over the years. Squatters settlements ...

“Black Rock City” exists as a human settlement for only eight days each year. The rest of the time, it is an empty patch of arid desert....