Wide Urban World
Monday, July 4, 2016

How do neighborhoods form?

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Neighborhood organization is one of the few universals of urban structure. All cities, past and present, all over the world, are organized i...
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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Why we need to disentangle the concepts of city and state in the ancient world

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Many people will be puzzled by this title. The city and the state are separate concepts that refer to very different things. Why would ...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Settlement Scaling and Social Science Theory

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In this post I explore several branches of social science theory that support the social reactor model of settlement scaling. This is...
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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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