Why Archaeology Is Necessary for a Theory of Urbanization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19590293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Ortman (0000-0003-0709-5287), Scott G Ortman, Michael E Smith (0000-0002-0677-8206), J Lobo (0000-0002-0814-7168), Luís M A Bettencourt, Luís Bettencourt (0000-0001-6176-5160) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Pages | 151-167 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Urban Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2736-2426 • E-ISSN: 2736-2434 |
| Publisher | Brepols Publishers NV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1484/j.jua.5.120914 |
| OpenAlex | W3084055881 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 52 |
In recent decades researchers in several disciplines have promoted ‘urban science’ to acknowledge the advantages of multidisciplinary approaches and the expanding ability to collect data for contemporary cities. Although practitioners tend to treat the city as the object of study, in our view the more appropriate focus is the process of urbanization. When framed this way, the archaeological record becomes central to a robust theory of urbanization, and even helps to clarify aspects of urbanization that are difficult to study in a present-day context. In this paper, we illustrate this point by discussing examples where archaeological evidence has clarified and expanded aspects of settlement scaling theory, an approach that was initially developed in the context of contemporary cities but which applies to settlements of all shapes, sizes, and periods
Archaeology · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Economic growth · Environmental planning · Geography · Human settlement · Multidisciplinary approach · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Urban theory · Urbanization · Computer Science · Engineering · Housing Market and Economics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
Cities, Information, and the Epigraphic Habit
What North American Archaeology Needs to Take Advantage of the Digital Data Revolution
Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management
Urbanization and Cities in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
First Cities
Urban scaling theory
Artifact density and population density in settlement pattern research
Low-Density Urbanisation
Provisioning an Early City
Processes of Early Iron Age Urbanisation of Eastern European Forest-Steppe
Urban Scalograms
‘Large, Dense, and … Heterogeneous’
Archaeological Perspectives on Urban Sustainability
Searching for the DNA of urbanisation. A material perspective
Towards intergenerational neutrality in urban planning and governance
Societal segmentation and early urbanism in Mesopotamia
Considering Urbanism at Mound Key (Caalus), the capital of the Calusa in the 16th Century, Southwest Florida, USA
The Low-Density Urban Systems of the Classic Period Maya and Izapa
Economies of Scale in Agricultural Production Among Post-Contact and Prehispanic Northern Rio Grande Pueblos
Prehispanic settlement patterns in the lower Santa Valley, Peru
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The preindustrial city
Archaeological survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947
Networks
Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II
The New Science of Cities
The Quality of the Archaeological Record
Location and Land Use
Settlement scaling and increasing returns in an ancient society
The Origins of Scaling in Cities
Economic growth in a cross-section of cities
The Wealth of Cities
Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities
A comprehensive archaeological map of the world's largest preindustrial settlement complex at Angkor, Cambodia
The Pre-History of Urban Scaling
Diverse cities or the systematic paradox of Urban Scaling Laws
Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data
Locational analysis in human geography
Ancient Mesoamerica
The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies
Rereading the Fossil Record
The Basin of Mexico
The origins and development of complex prehispanic society in the Lower Santa Valley, Peru
Regional Settlement Pattern Studies
Urban Allometric Growth
Settlement scaling and economic change in the Central Andes
The City Shaped
Infield-Outfield Systems
Urbanization without growth in historical perspective
Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy
A systematic method for estimating the populations of Greek and Roman settlements
Investigating Teotihuacan Through TMP Surface Collections and Observations
Zipf's Law for Cities
Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists
Urban form, infrastructure and spatial organisation in the Roman Empire
Integrated Remote Sensing and Excavation at Double Ditch State Historic Site, North Dakota
Population, Exchange, and Early State Formation in Southwestern Iran
Urbanism as a Way of Life
Settlement Scaling in Middle-Range Societies
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |