The Development of Urbanism from a Global Perspective
This book forms one of the results from the "Urban Origins in Eastern Africa" final conference in Mombasa, 1993. The conference, hosted by the National Museums of Kenya, was also a WAC Inter-congress and the c. 200 participants came from all over the world.
List of Contents
- Paul J. J. Sinclair Introduction
- D. P. Agrawal Urban Origins in India
- Claude Allibert & Pierre Vérin Which is most informative: archaeology or historical tradition?
- Bassey Andah Genesis and development of settlements in the Guinea and savanna regions
- Senake Bandaranayake The premodern city in Sri Lanka: the 'first' and 'second' urbanization
- Yuri E. Berezkin Apa Tanis and the Ancient Near East - an alternative model of complex society
- Susan Bulmer City without a State? Urbanisation in pre-European Taamaki-Makau-rau (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Felix Chami: The ancient cultural sequence for the central coast of east Africa: a new perspective
- Graham Connah Resource exploitation and population aggregation: the case of Kibiro
- Christos Doumas The Emergence of Central Authority in the Aegean
- Rodolfo Fattovich The development of urbanism in the northern Horn of Africa in ancient and medieval times
- Roland Fletcher Diversity and Dispersal
- Elizabeth Graham Maya cities and the character of tropical urbanism
- Christian Isendahl Angoche: An important link of the Zambezian gold trade
- Gary Lock & Trevor Harris Analysing change through time within a cultural landscape: conceptual and functional limitations of a GIS approach
- Susan Keech McIntosh A tale of two floodplains: comparative perspectives on the emergence of complex societies and urbanism in the middle Niger and Senegal valleys
- Pierre de Maret Urban Origins in Central Africa - the case of Kongo
- Tekeste Negash The Zagwe period re-interpreted: post-Aksumite Ethiopian urban culture
- C. M. Nelson Evidence for early trade between the coast and interior of east Africa
- Izumi Niiro The formation of complex society in Japan and surrounding areas
- Evgenij Nosov The problems of Urbanism in the Baltic Region
- Andrew Reid The character of urbanism in inter-lacustrine eastern Africa
- J. D. Richards The York Environs Project: an early medieval town and its hinterland
- Stephane Pradines New architectural data on the Islamisation of oriental Africa: the example of the evolution of the mihrabs
- Paul J. J. Sinclair & Michael Petrén: Exploring the interface between modern and traditional information systems: the case of Great Zimbabwe (pdf)
- J.E.G. Sutton The southern Swahili harbour and town on Kilwa island, 800-1800 AD: a chronology of booms and slumps
- Dirk H. R. Spenneman Urbanisation in Tonga: expansion and contraction of political centres in a tropical chiefdom
- Wang Tao A city with many faces: urban development in pre-modern China (c. 3000 BC - AD 900)
- Lana Troy Resource management and ideological manifestation. The towns and cities of ancient Egypt
- Larry J. Zimmerman Urbanization in prehistoric North America: a summary