urban complex
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The complexity of this urban complex reflects a major development in Mesoamerican civilizational and architectural design.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The urban complex, located on the outskirts of contemporary Mexico City, was an important cosmopolitan center about which not nearly enough is known.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2018
Angkor became the "largest pre-industrial urban complex in the world", says Cambridge PhD student Mary Beth Day, featuring the "most sophisticated hydraulic engineering and water management system".
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2012
Piers, salt ponds, rotting ship hulks, human detritus and a land-hungry urban complex have reduced that water area to 420 square miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the people of the Norte Chico were building these cities, there was only one other urban complex on earth: Sumer.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
