Maya cities and the character of a tropical urbanism

摘要: In Forests, the Shadow of Civilization, Robert Pogue Harrison (1992) vividly conjures up fear and wonderment forest that prefigure Western civilization’s urban imperative – an experience has been confrontational, in which terms are all-or-nothing: we win, goes = city; it wins, go wilderness. paragraphs follow I suggest alternative historical environmental relationships developed between trees people humid tropics, these constitute conditions for ecology urbanism tropical regions around globe.