Wide Urban World
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The Urban Revolution, now online

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V. Gordon Childe at Skara Brae in Orkney The journal Town Planning Review is making articles from its special 100th Anniversary issues,...
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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Teotihuacan and the origins of market economies

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Teotihuacan from the air; old photo The great ancient city of Teotihuacan is of crucial importance for understanding how market economie...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Urban scaling: Cities as social reactors

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Classes are back in session, so it’s time to get this blog back in gear. (NOTE: I made some updates to correct a few things on September...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Ancient Maya cities are being destroyed

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Maya pyramid being destroyed in Belize A Maya pyramid (well, an ex-pyramid) at the ancient Maya city of Nohmul in Belize, Central Americ...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Cities outside of history?

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Mayapan, a Maya city Did cities exist in the New World prior to the European conquest? Of course they did! If you have any doubt, take a...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Teotihuacan, Ancient Mesoamerican Metropolis

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Here are the top ten reasons why Teotihuacan is the most important ancient city of the Americas.   View down the Avenue of the Dead,...
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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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