Cities like Angkor Wat and the great Mayan urban centers have been shown by lidar and new thinking not to have been urban centers on our model, with an inherent pattern of decline and fall reflecting the eternal greed and folly of human nature, but vast low-density conurbations including agriculture and manufactures:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jun/22/the-real-urban-jungle-how-ancient-societies-reimagined-what-cities-could-be > > Extensive, interspersed with nature and combining food production with > social and political function, these ancient cities are now catching the > eyes of 21st-century urban planners trying to come to grips with tropical > forests as sites of some of the fastest-growing human populations around > the world today. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9367): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9367 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83721383/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
