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Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity : Design and Experience /

Studies on ancient urbanity either concerns individual buildings or the city as a whole. This volume, instead, addresses a meso-scale of urbanity: the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities. Its temporal focus is on Late Republican and Imperial Italy, and more specifically the cities of Pompei...

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Otros Autores: Bruun, Christer (Contribuidor), Busen, Tobias (Contribuidor), Ellis, Steven J. R. (Contribuidor), Haug, Annette (Editor ), Hielscher, Adrian (Editor ), Krüger, Anna-Lena (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]
Colección:Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy (Decor) , 7
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Design and Experience of Neighbourhoods and City Quarters
  • Regiones, Vici and Grassroots Dynamics at Roman Ostia
  • Neighbourhoods: Small-scale Areas of Individual Experience
  • Neighbourhood Dynamics, Neighbourhood Character and the Persistence of Shared Infrastructure: Impressions from an Urban Quarter in Athens, 5th Century B.C. to 3rd Century A.D.
  • Back-to-Back and Yet not Separate: Evidence of Neighbourly Agreements within Insula I 4 in Pompeii
  • Roman Neighbourhoods and the Archaeological Process: A Case Study from the Porta Stabia Neighbourhood at Pompeii
  • Neighbourhoods by the Tiber: Life at Two Harbours in Rome
  • Streets Between Axiality and Area
  • The Crossroads of Mercury: Decoration and Development on the Via di Mercurio at Pompeii
  • Urban Infrastructure and the Perception of Neighbourhood
  • City Quarters and Districts: The Socio-spatial Patterning of the City
  • The Green City Quarter Close to the Amphitheatre in Pompeii and its Rural Identity
  • Prosperity and Inequality: Imperial Hegemony and Neighbourhood Formation in the Cities of Roman Italy
  • Author Biographies