Chinampa farming in Tenochtitlan Urban agriculture is a hot topic right now, but it's nothing new. The Aztecs were doing this 600 ...

I just found out that my post "What is a city? Definitions of the urban, " is the most popular post in this blog. Since my views o...

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...