During the last five decades, traditional 14C dating techniques have made numerous contributions to the archaeology of the Old World. These are evidenced in a vast literature that reports and discusses the evolution of social and cultural entities recorded from over the last 40,000 years. Terminologies may vary across Eurasia and Africa, but in the most encompassing definitions, this is a world...

The fundamental organizing elements of the New Urbanism are the neighborhood, the district and the corridor. Neighborhoods are urbanized areas with a balanced mix of human activity; districts are areas dominated by a single activity; corridors are connectors and separators of neighborhoods and districts. A single neighborhood standing free in the landscape is a village. Cities and towns are mad...

Vikramaditya Prakash is an Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington. He has a Bachelor of Architecture from Chandigarh, India , and an MA. and Ph.D. in History ofArchitecture and Urbanism from Cornell University. His research interest is in interdisclipinary architectural culture studies, focusing on the postcolonial architecture ofSouth Asia. I speak today as a...

These two books, from different urban series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, offer contrasting perspectives on the deindustrialization of America’s twentieth-century manufacturing centers. In Design After Decline, Brent Ryan focuses on the efforts of Philadelphia and Detroit to rebuild after decades of population loss and economic decline. He places both cities in the broader...

Housing’s values are a key topic of public and policy debate, with discussions including the social value housing in form human rights or care, rising property values, value-capture infrastructure development, Indigenous land, for reproduction. With this mind, we engage various ways is valued, not as reductive exercise to find ‘the value’ but recognise valuations inform situated relational poli...