Energised crowding
AEON,
To understand why early cities thrived, look not to the temples of kings but to their subjects’ bustling neighbourhoods - by…
Early Cities and Other Urbanisms
Inhabiting the Anthropocene,
Galata bridge in Istanbul, bridging east and west, old and new. By Moyan Brenn [CC BY 2.0)]Urban landscapes provide useful…
How do big cities differ from small cities (in the ancient past and today)?
Wide Urban World,
Are big cities different from smaller cities mainly in their size? Or do they differ in other ways that go beyond simple…
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, but Predictable World: Scaling the Patterns of Ancient Urban Growth
Public Library of Science - PLoS ONE Blog,
With more than 7.1 billion people living across the globe, cities house more than 50% of the world’s population. The United…
Urban scaling arrives in archaeology
Publishing Archaeology,
Urban population dynamicsThe first application of the methods of urban scaling to archaeological data was published last week (Or…
Ancient Cities Developed in a Surprisingly Similar Way to Modern Ones
Smart News,
The same mathematical equations that describe patterns of modern urban sprawl are equally suited to explaining the development…