Building and knowing / Joseph Rykwert and Tony Atkin -- Animal settlements : ecological functionalism of animal architecture / Juhana Pallasmaa -- Settlement patterns in Americanist archaeology / Gordon R. Willey -- The idea of a Maya town / Wendy Ashmore -- Cosmological structures of ancient Egyptian city planning / David O'Connor -- Mohenjo-Daro : the symbolic landscape of an ancient city / Gregory Possehl -- Holy mountains / Joseph Rykwert -- The ontological structure of mediance as a ground of meaning in architecture / Augustin Berque -- Three gestures in a poetics of place : Chinese settlement and disruption / Stephan Feuchtwang -- The language of cultural memory in Chinese gardens / Stanislaus Fung -- A culture without a temple : ritual landscape sanctuaries and female superiority in state religion in Ryukyu / Tsutomu Iyori -- Etruscan boundaries and prophecy / Larissa Bonfante -- Razing the roof : the imperative of building destruction in Danhomáe (Dahomey) / Suzanne P. Blier -- Signs of the ancestors : an archaeology of mesa villages of the pueblo revolt / T.J. Ferguson and Robert Preucel -- Imagining the past / Edmund Carpenter -- The oasis model / Pietro Laureano -- The evolution of settlement : fieldwork at Zuni pueblo 1995-97 / Tony Atkin -- The primitive origins of modern architecture : Le Corbusier's Voyage to the East / M. Christine Boyer -- Symbolic settlements : the American ideological tension between private homes and public housing / Lawrence J. Vale -- Transplanting the New Jersey turnpike to China / Thomas J. Campanella -- Landscape ecology and cities / Laurie Olin -- Settlements after now / Michael Sorkin -- 21st century nomadism and settlement / Denis Cosgrove -- Materials matter in urban architecture / David Leatherbarrow.