Graham, E;
(1996)
Maya cities and the character of a tropical urbanism.
In: Sinclair, P, (ed.)
The development of urbanism from a global perspective.
Uppsala University: Uppsala, Sweden.
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Abstract
In Forests, the Shadow of Civilization, Robert Pogue Harrison (1992) vividly conjures up the fear and wonderment of the forest that prefigure Western civilization’s urban imperative – an experience that has been confrontational, in which the terms are all-or-nothing: we win, the forest goes = city; it wins, we go = wilderness. In the paragraphs that follow I suggest that alternative historical and environmental relationships developed between trees and people in the humid tropics, and these relationships constitute the conditions for an ecology of urbanism in humid tropical regions around the globe.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Maya cities and the character of a tropical urbanism |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/000.ch.10128741 |
| Publisher version: | https://www.arkeologi.uu.se/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | cities, tropical, environment |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10128741 |
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