‘First Cities’ Published!
I’m happy to announce that the book is available to freely access online and download until April 17, 2024. The link is here. The print version costs $22.00.
Urban Studies
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New Book: ‘First Cities’ and Planning Lessons for the 21st Century
The 22-month hiatus between our last post and this one is explained by many interruptions: required updating of the courses I teach in subject areas where knowledge accumulates at a very rapid rate, unusually heavy university committee work, and collaborative […]
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Deep History, Ancient Wisdom, and Modern Planning
Deep history—defined here as the entirety of Homo sapiens’ 300,000+ years of existence on the planet—is a favorite subject for best-selling authors and wannabes worldwide. A new book by David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of […]
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Decolonizing the Settler City
This year witnessed the timely launch, against the backdrop of dramatic anti-racism insurgencies, of a new journal: the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and the City (JREC). The journal’s editors rightly identify race and ethnicity as concepts that are fundamental to understanding cities […]
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Anti-Racist Planning: A View from Elsewhere
The systemic violence being committed against Black Americans in our cities has prompted much soul searching and table pounding about racial inequalities in urban planning education and practice. Many are the calls for radical change in how urban planners and […]
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Intercultural Urbanism: City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day
The title of this post is the title of a book I’ve written that will be published by Zed Books this summer or early fall in its series on Just Sustainabilities, edited by Julian Agyeman. The book has been almost two […]
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Checklist for a Sustainable Smart City
Given widespread scholarly and popular interest in smart and sustainable cities, Intercultural Urbanism is pleased to post the following infographic courtesy of Citybase. Comments welcome!
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Expanding Thought About Cities, Sustainability, and Social Justice
The following essay was solicited and published by the University Denver Newsroom ahead of the university’s 17th annual Diversity Summit held on January 25-26, 2018. It offers a perspective on the summit theme dealing with the overlap between environmental and social […]
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The Ancient Roots of New Urbanism
One purpose of this blog is to promote urban anthropology—the cross-cultural and deep time study of variation in ways of being and building—as a source of principles and practices for guiding contemporary urban planning and design. By “deep time” I mean […]
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Dystopian Denver: Are We Protecting the Character of Our City?
Guest Post by Loryn Fujinami Loryn Fujinami is an emerging Anthropology and Urban Studies professional, who aspires to use an anthropological lens on current issues, with a focus on the relationship between culture and materiality. It’s not news that things […]
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Wrestling with Growth, Equity, and Sustainability
This post is inspired by a historic convening of Denver’s last four mayors for a keynote panel discussion at the 2017 Sustainable Denver Summit held on December 5, 2017. The summit’s theme was “Growing Responsibly.” This annual event set new […]
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Archaeology, Ancient Urbanism, and Cultural Heritage in Peru
Guest Post by Gracie Rouse Gracie Rouse is a University of Denver undergraduate student who took my course, The Ancient City, in winter quarter 2016. Gracie’s project for that class was on the site of Great Zimbabwe in Africa. Here, […]