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Classic Maya Settlement Clusters as Urban Neighborhoods: A Comparative Perspective on Low-Density Urbanism. Some archaeologists have suggested recently that clusters of houses at Classic Maya sites functioned as urban neighborhoods. This article presents comparative historical and ethnographic data from low-density cities to support this interpretation. I review two Mesoamerican cases: the Aztec calpolli and the modern Tzotzil house cluster; and urban clusters in two African cases: the Nupe city of Bida in West Africa and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The kinds of social relationships, activities, and conditions that characterize neighborhoods in high-density cities are also found in the comparative examples of house clusters. This comparative information strengthens the argument that clusters of houses served as neighborhoods in Classic Maya cities.

El semanario mexicano El Cosmopolita, que se publicara en Kansas City durante la década de 1910, es un magnífico ejemplo de la producción periodística mexicana en Estados Unidos y una fuente inagotable de información para los investigadores interesados en el tema de la migración México-Estados Unidos. El artículo se propone hacer un análisis de la publicación, su orientación política, en un momento clave de la vida nacional y las pistas que ofrece para entender y conocer a la comunidad mexicana de Kansas City, que jugara un papel preponderante como centro redistribuidor de la mano de obra mexicana en Estados Unidos