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The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition

American Anthropologist, 1988
The process of preindustrial urbanization is an important archeological issue because of its association with the emergence of early complex societies. There is considerable debate among Mesoamerican archeologists concerning both the evolutionary nature of the process itself and the configurations and functions of the centers that might be called ...
William T. Sanders, David Webster
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Reconsidering Traditional Urbanism

1999
The 1999 Weiss Symposium series assembled a dozen leading figures from the fields of planning, architecture, history, sociology, psychology, and journalism to discuss and debate traditional urbanism in five events held in the spring of 1999 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This special section presents the ideas of three participants:
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The Italian urban landscape tradition

Rivista L’Architettura delle Città n. 25/2024
Between 1932 and 1935, Marcello Piacentini (1881-1960) was in charge of coordinating the project of the new University Campus of Rome. The modern Studium Urbis would have grouped the colleges located in the city center, creating dedicated buildings, and reducing together people's pressure on historical neighborhoods.
Benincampi, Iacopo, Gambuti, Emanuele
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Jambi Traditional Market as Urban Memory

2018 2nd International Conference on Smart Grid and Smart Cities (ICSGSC), 2018
This paper focuses on the impact of the rapidly changed urban space which was formed by collective memory. A rapid change in urban development results in the loss of an essence of space that eliminates the memorable impression of the urban space. The research was completed through field observation and collecting the narration from the memory of a city.
Dina Kurniati, Ahmad Gamal
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Chinese geomancy and traditional urban design

Journal of Urban Design, 2017
Chinese geomancy or fengshui has made an enormous impact on Chinese and other East Asian urban landscapes as it is a key factor in determining city locations and city designs.
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