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Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity: Design and Experience

Edited by Annette Haug, Edited by Adrian Hielscher, Edited by Anna-Lena KrÃ¼ger, Other European Research Council (ERC)

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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 â€˜neighbourhood and â€˜city quarterâ€™ the volume proposes two different methodological approaches: Neighbourhood here refers to the face-to-face relation between people living next to each other â€“ 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.