There is a media story going around this week about the discovery of a new, "hidden Maya city." Here is the story in the NY  Times...

  This is the second of two posts on my fundamental “theses”: the basic principles of my approach to premodern cities and urbanism.   See th...

Martin Luther nailed his theses to the door of the church to mark the public expression of his ideas. I believe that scholars should similar...

This post consists mostly of a passage from chapter 3 of my book, Urban Life in the Distant Past. The book will be released in February o...