Call for papers 31 Academia XXII - Enclosed: Ancient Americas’ collective spaces

Ancient urban architectural planning employs native geometric enveloping concepts that reflect a sophisticated understanding of surrounding environmental tectonics for organizing collective places. Intersections, nodes, and contained forms’ key principles, constants, and patterning not only shed light on the cultural, ideological, and social factors that influence boundary and landscape recognition, but also emphasize design and context understanding that inspired how native people adopted and permanently inhabited cities and social settings in the Americas.

This call for papers invites researchers and professionals to consider geometric envelopment elements as key factors to organization and planning collective spaces. They also provide an enduring material legacy in shaping built environments, whose remains transcend antiquity until today.  Architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, anthropology, archaeology, geography, history, ecology, or many comparable disciplines enhance understanding ancient civilizations through observing particularly related details.

Specific thematic topic options could include:

• Pre-Columbian cities’ Archaeoastronomy
• Ancient urban landscape archaeology
• Urban infrastructures in Native American civilizations
• Tectonics and geometry as competing or complementary urban design elements
• Ancient human settlement genres or trends
• Geometric- or calendric-based designs
• Economic versus ideological schemes
• Heritage resources survival and integration in contemporary urban environments.