This book started life as a thesis that was submitted for a D. Phil. at the University of Oxford
in 2016 and has been revised during my time as a research associate at the University of …

Almost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or
physical disability and society tries to accommodate their needs. But what was the situation …

Was the Roman world caught in a Malthusian trap? In this survey, I draw on a wide range of
evidence–from archeological data to city size estimates–to argue that Malthusian constraints …

Climate change impacts, the resulting spatiotemporal changes, and growing uncertainty
exert pressure on city leaders and policy makers to create climate adaptive development …

This volume presents fourteen papers by Roman archaeologists and historians discussing
approaches to the economic history of Pompeii and the role of the Pompeian evidence in …

Recent empirical studies on the division of labor in modern cities indicate a complex web of
relationships between sectoral specialization of cities and their productivity on one hand and …

This chapter is a preliminary sketch of an approach to analysing Minoan and Aegean
urbanism in the Bronze Age. It comprises two sections, the first an outline of urban …

White's (1976) article on food requirements and food supplies in classical times was one of
the first studies to consider ancient food as it related to diet and nutrition more fully. While his …

For the study of LM II-IIIB Crete, Knossos has two particularly strong points. It has been
intensively investigated for over a century, which provides a reasonably well documented …

If 'urban religion'can serve as a lens onto the historical entanglement of cities or even more
loosely 'urban settlements', it is the spatial character of religion that needs to be understood …