Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity: Design and Experience

by Adrian Hielscher, Anna-Lena Krüger, Annette Haug

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111238024
• ISBN13: 9783111238029
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 11.2"