Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Building and knowing

2. Animal settlements: ecological functionalism of animal architecture

3. Settlement patterns in Americanist archaeology

4. The idea of a Maya town

5. Cosmological structures of ancient Egyptian city planning

6. Mohenjo-Daro: the symbolic landscape of an ancient city

7. Holy mountains

8. The ontological structure of mediance as a ground of meaning in architecture

9. Three gestures in a poetics of place : Chinese settlement and disruption

10. The language of cultural memory in Chinese gardens

11. A culture without a temple: ritual landscape sanctuaries and female superiority in state religion in Ryukyu

12. Etruscan boundaries and prophecy

13. Razing the roof: the imperative of building destruction in Danhome (Dahomey)

14. Signs of the ancestors: an archaeology of mesa villages of the Pueblo revolt

15. Imagining the past

16. The oasis model

17. The evolution of settlement: fieldwork at Zuni Pueblo 1995-97

18. The primitive origins of modern architecture: Le Corbusier's Voyage to the East

19. Symbolic settlements: the American ideological tension between private homes and public housing

20. Transplanting the New Jersey Turnpike to China

21. Landscape ecology and cities

22. Settlements after now

23. 21st century nomadism and settlement

24. Materials matter in urban architecture