UID:
edoccha_9961217891502883
Format:
1 online resource (VII, 176 p.)
ISBN:
3-11-124809-7
Series Statement:
Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy (Decor) , 7
Content:
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 Pompeii and Ostia. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods and city quarters as basic categories of design and experience. With the terms ‘neighbourhood and ‘city quarter’ the volume proposes two different methodological approaches: Neighbourhood here refers to the face-to-face relation between people living next to each other – thus the small-scale environment centred around a house and an individual. Neighbourhoods thus do not constitute a (collectively defined) urban territory with clear borders, but are rather constituted by individual experiences. In contrast, city quarters are understood as areas that share certain characteristics.
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Table of Contents --
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Introduction --
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Design and Experience of Neighbourhoods and City Quarters --
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Regiones, Vici and Grassroots Dynamics at Roman Ostia --
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Neighbourhoods: Small-scale Areas of Individual Experience --
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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. --
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Back-to-Back and Yet not Separate: Evidence of Neighbourly Agreements within Insula I 4 in Pompeii --
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Roman Neighbourhoods and the Archaeological Process: A Case Study from the Porta Stabia Neighbourhood at Pompeii --
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Neighbourhoods by the Tiber: Life at Two Harbours in Rome --
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Streets Between Axiality and Area --
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The Crossroads of Mercury: Decoration and Development on the Via di Mercurio at Pompeii --
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Urban Infrastructure and the Perception of Neighbourhood --
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City Quarters and Districts: The Socio-spatial Patterning of the City --
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The Green City Quarter Close to the Amphitheatre in Pompeii and its Rural Identity --
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Prosperity and Inequality: Imperial Hegemony and Neighbourhood Formation in the Cities of Roman Italy --
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Author Biographies
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111238029
Language:
English
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