This post is a kind of reply to my previous post, " Why are Premodern Cities Important Today? " If cities today are completely dif...

Medieval street life Sociology without history resembles a Hollywood set: great scenes, sometimes brilliantly painted, with nothing and n...

Fig 1 - A Trelleborg fortress today The very phrase "Viking urban planning" may strike some as an oxymoron. The Vikings are fam...

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...