Journal of Urban Archaeology 15 (2027)

This fifteenth issue of the Journal of Urban Archaeology takes stock of a decade of research conducted within the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) and assesses its impact on the study of past urbanism. The contributions collected here originate from the conference A Decade of UrbNet: Closing In and Zooming Out, held in September 2025 to mark the conclusion of the centre’s ten-year research programme and to reflect critically on its intellectual legacy. The articles gathered in this special journal issue bring together empirical investigations and broader theoretical discussions in order to revisit key conceptual frameworks in the archaeology of urban societies and networks. Through a range of case studies and thematic explorations, they evaluate the ideas, methods, and findings that have shaped urban archaeology over the past decade, both within UrbNet and across the wider field. Together, they provide comparative perspectives on urban development and offer new insights into the study of complex urban worlds in the past.