Making comparative archaeological and historical urbanism rigorous and open access through the URBank data platform
Adapting to a global urban future requires diverse, long-term perspectives on urbanism. URBank supports this by bringing together global deep-time urban datasets in a modern open-science computing platform. Its design eschews checklist definitions of cities, representing the variability of past urbanism and enabling systematic comparative spatiotemporal research.
Authors
- Sarah Klassen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5110-713X)
- Scott G. Ortman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0709-5287)
- José Manuel Sousa Lobo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9518-8397)
- David Brotherson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2106-4439)
- Claire E. Ebert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8554-2727)
- Iza Romanowska
- Dan Lawrence
- Michael E. Smith
- Thon Tho
- Patrick Roberts
- W. Christopher Carleton
Institutions
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Durham University (GB)
- Aarhus University (DK)
- University of Colorado System (US)
- Delhi Development Authority (IN)
- Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
- Arizona State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Antiquity
- Published
- 2026-02-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10287
- Primary Topic
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00