Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Tables xv
5. Introduction
6. 1 Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism 5
7. Part I Community Formation
8. 2 The Roots of Urbanization 53
9. 3 Kaj and Kingdom 72
10. 4 A City in Flux 105
11. 5 Urbanizing Paradise 148
12. Part II Household Decisions, Mobility, and Connectivity
13. 6 Spatial and Social Contraction in Late-Terminal Classic Río Bec Neighborhoods 177
14. 7 Classic Maya Neighborhoods 213
15. 8 Households, Growth, Contraction, and Mobility at the Classic Maya Center of Naachtun 249
16. 9 Walking through the Urban Maze of Mayapán 280
17. Part III City-Scale Resource Use and Management
18. 10 The Living Landscape 315
19. 11 Urban Planning at Caracol, Belize 349
20. 12 Urban Planning through the Prism of Infrastructure at Palenque, Chiapas 377
21. 13 Shaping an Agrarian Maya Town 398
22. Part IV Agrarian Urbanism in the American Tropics
23. 14 The Death and Life of Agricultural Cities 437
24. Index 461
25. Contributors 475