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Urban housing in the ancient Mediterranean
This chapter offers a rough sketch of the history of urban housing in the ancient Mediterranean. It highlights four leading developments: the emergence of standardized housing in the classical Greek world, the increasing monumentalization of houses and the flourishing of the peristyle in the Hellenistic and Roman world, the appearance of large, multi‐polar urban palaces in the later Hellenistic and Roman world, and the emergence, on the other side of the social spectrum, of dependent housing, such as rental apartments, particularly in Roman Italy. This chapter argues that these innovations were cumulative, and enabled an ever larger diversity of housing facilities, within and between communities, partially in response to increasing socio‐economic inequality. These innovations did not emerge in a vacuum, but reflect profound changes in the composition and functioning of urban communities, which can be associated with broader historical developments, including the flourishing of the Hellenistic Kingdoms and the Roman Empire.
Urban housing in the ancient Mediterranean
This chapter offers a rough sketch of the history of urban housing in the ancient Mediterranean. It highlights four leading developments: the emergence of standardized housing in the classical Greek world, the increasing monumentalization of houses and the flourishing of the peristyle in the Hellenistic and Roman world, the appearance of large, multi‐polar urban palaces in the later Hellenistic and Roman world, and the emergence, on the other side of the social spectrum, of dependent housing, such as rental apartments, particularly in Roman Italy. This chapter argues that these innovations were cumulative, and enabled an ever larger diversity of housing facilities, within and between communities, partially in response to increasing socio‐economic inequality. These innovations did not emerge in a vacuum, but reflect profound changes in the composition and functioning of urban communities, which can be associated with broader historical developments, including the flourishing of the Hellenistic Kingdoms and the Roman Empire.
Urban housing in the ancient Mediterranean
Flohr, Miko (editor) / Zuiderhoek, Arjan (editor) / Flohr, Miko (author)
2024-08-20
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2002
A Mediterranean Housing Model In Catania: Spontaneous Installation on Urban Volcanic Ground
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2002
A Mediterranean Housing Model In Catania: Spontaneous Installation on Urban Volcanic Ground
| Online Contents | 2002