List of Figures List of Tables Contributors Preface
1 Making Ancient Cities: New Perspectives on the
Kevin D. Fisher and Andrew T. Creekmore III
Archaeological Perspectives on Ancient Cities 3
Making Ancient Cities in Global Perspective 10
Future Directions in the Study of Ancient Cities 21
2 The Social Production of Space in Third-Millennium
Cities of Upper Mesopotamia 32
Andrew T. Creekmore III
Urbanization and Urban Space 34
Upper Mesopotamian Urban Planning 37
The Importance of Life Histories 57
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3 North Mesopotamian Urban Neighborhoods at Titrij
Hoyuk in the Third Millennium BC 74
Yoko Nishimura
Previous Studies on Ancient Urban Residential Neighborhoods 76
The Environment of City-States 79
North Mesopotamian City Layout 80
Analysis of the Excavation Data 85
Analysis of the Magnetometry Data 93
4 Swahili Urban Spaces of the Eastern African Coast 111
Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jeffrey Fleisher
Comparing Fourteenth - and Fifteenth-Century
Practice and the Stonehouse 131
Cities as Processes, Not Products 136
5 The Production of Space and Identity at
Classic-Period Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico 145
Aline Magnoni, Traci Ardren, Scott R. Hutson, and Bruce Dahlin
Chunchucmil as an Ancient Maya Urban Center 148
The Built Environment of the City of Chunchucmil 152
Social Production of Place and Identity at Chunchucmil 159
6 Making the First Cities on Cyprus: Urbanism and
Social Change in the Late Bronze Age 181
Kevin D. Fisher
Ways of Looking at Late Cypriot Cities 182
The Rise of Urbanism on Cyprus 185
Place-Making in Late Cypriot Urban Landscapes 190
7 Urbanization and the Emergence of the Greek Polis:
Contents
Rodney D. Fitzsimons
8 The Rise of a Minoan City and the (Re)Structuring of
Its Hinterlands: A View from Galatas 257
D. Matthew Buell
9 Cahokia: The Processes and Principles of the
Creation of an Early Mississippian City 292
John E. Kelly and James A. Brown
Cahokia as a City: Past Perspectives 294
Settlement History, Evolution, and Cosmology 315
Corporate Groups and City Space 321
Conclusions: Cahokia as a City Revisited 323
10 Comparing East and West: Aspects of Urban Manufacture and Retail in the Capitals of
Anna Razeto
General Layout, Distribution, and Scale of Retail
And Manufacture Structures 342
11 Ancient Open Space, Gardens, and Parks: A
Comparative Discussion of Mesoamerican Urbanism 370
Barbara L. Stark
Concepts about Urban Open Space: Gardens and Parks 371
Open Space and Settlement Comparisons 374
Palatial Gardens: Mesoamerican Prospects 375
Green Space, Urban Boundaries, and Urban Models 385
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12 Different Cities
Norman Yoffee
The City Different and Different Cities in this Book
Full Disclosure
City Differences
To Be or Not to Be: Cities
Index
World History
