The basic premise of this blog is that cities and urbanism have been around for thousands of years, and that it is interesting and useful to...

1. Plaza at Dos Pilas, Maya city There is much to learn from archaeological maps of ancient cities. Even in places where we have no writ...

Dense living I just found an interesting aggregation site called " Dense Living. "   It brings together blog posts, tweets, an...

 The village of Round Lake is located in Saratoga County, NY, between Albany and Saratoga Springs. It stands out in upstate New York for...

Pilgrim housing in Mecca NOTE, added 2015: This paper is now published. New, rapidly growing places can reveal the patterns and proces...

Many modern cities are segregated by race, class, or other parameters, and mixed neighborhoods seem rare. Most people believe that this is n...

Does urbanization cause social breakdown? Are cities places of chaos and crime, where values go out the window? Few people today would answe...