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Volume 2, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2736-2426
  • E-ISSN: 2736-2434

Abstract

Abstract

Comparative analysis is an important goal of the research carried out by the Centre for Urban Networks Evolution. Archaeologists and historians conducting research on cities need comparison for several reasons: to distinguish unique features of individual cities from universal urban traits; to better understand individual cities and deposits; and to generalize about cities, towns, and urbanism. In this article, I review methods and concepts of comparative urban analysis, including systematic vs intensive comparisons, the scale of comparison, synchronic vs diachronic comparison, and comparison at different stages in a research trajectory. I also discuss empirical and epistemological linkages between comparisons of cities and comparisons of urban deposits as studied by high-definition archaeological methods. These issues of comparison can help integrate the analysis of urban networks with high-definition localized studies of urban deposits.

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