The extent of urban areas is rapidly expanding across the globe, both horizontally and
vertically. While natural and social scientists have examined the impacts of this urbanisation …

This book considers the provisional nature of cities in relation to the Anthropocene–the
proposed geological epoch of human-induced changes to the Earth system. It charts an …

Earth scientists now argue that the current geological era should be re‐named the
anthropocene to better reflect the impact of humans in reshaping planetary ecology …

This study offers the first extensive analysis of the function and significance of urban
panegyric in the Central Middle Ages, a flexible literary genre which enjoyed a marked and …

'The Urban Revolution'by V. Gordon Childe (Town Planning Review, 1950) is one of the
most heavily cited papers ever published by an archaeologist. The intellectual context and …

This special issue of The Journal of Architecture is focussed on how methods and narratives
of architectural history are being reconsidered in the face of increasing knowledge regarding …

My first two reports strove for unifying themes, the first on generational continuity and change
within the subdiscipline of historical geography (Holdsworth, 2002) and the second on …

Archaeologists and historians are still fascinated by key transformations in world prehistory
and history. These include the biological and cultural evolution of the first humans, as well …

Urban environments around the world are the result of their evolutionary and geographic
history, and more contemporary influences of the social, cultural, economic, political and …

Most historians and social scientists treat cities as mere settings. In fact, urban places shape
our experience. There, daily life has a faster, artificial rhythm and, for good and ill, people …