The ‘city’ across time. Emergence, developments, and social, economicpolitical, cultural and health impact

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Comitato Ordinatore

SALUTI ISTITUZIONALI
R. Antonelli
A. Polimeni
G. Piras

M. Frangipane, Ragioni e obiettivi del Convegno

1. THE BIRTH OF CITIES. DIFFERENT TRAJECTORIES AND OUTCOMES IN URBANIZATION PROCESSES
M. Frangipane, Urbanization in the Near East. Different processes and types of ‘cities’ in formative time
G. Algaze, The transregional origins of Early Mesopotamian civilization
A. Cardarelli, On the threshold of history. The origin of the first cities in Italy
M. Pearce, Different models of urbanization. Early towns in temperate Europe and the ‘Proto-Urban’ centres of early 1st millennium South Etruria
J. Müller, Trypilla Mega-Sites: Planned cityscape
L.R. Manzanilla, Teotihuacan in Central Mexico: An exceptional megalopolis

2. DIFFERENT MODELS OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ‘CITIES’
A. McMahon, Tell Brak and Northern Mesopotamian Cities.. »
L. Nigro, The diverse urbanism of the Levant: Models and achievements. The case of tell Es-Sulton / Ancient Jericho in the Early Bronze Age II
M. Bietak, Harbour towns of the Bronze Age: The examples of Avaris and Byblos
A. Shachner, Preliminary reflections on Central Anatolian urbanism during the 2nd Millennium BC

3. CITIES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
L. Godart, From the emergence of towns to the birth of Palaces in the Aegean Bronze Age
M. D’Acunto, The birth of the polis and the city-states of Archaic Greece: the archaeological perspective (750-480 BC)… »
P. Carafa, When? Where? How? Questions on the origins of the city in Rome
L. Capogrossi Colognesi, The city and its institutional heritage
S. Gelichi, The city from the Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Italy: A historical-archaeological perspective

4. ANCIENT NON-EUROPEAN CITIES: URBAN TYPES FROM NORTH AFRICA AND THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT
L. Mori, Urbanization in the Central Sahara in the 1st millennium BCE

5. CITIES IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
M.L. Smith, R. Kumar Mohanty, Political power, urban administration, and emotional labor in the cities of the Ancient Indian Subcontinent: A textual and archaeological perspective
B. Bonomo, Housing the masses: European and Italian cities in the post-war era
G.M. Labriola, La dimensione politica e pubblica della città contemporanea. Uno sguardo da fuori
A. Accetturo, P. Sestito, Urban agglomerations in the Italian economy
M. Colucci, Cities and population mobility in the contemporary age: Rome and Lazio between emigration and immigtation
P. Pellegrini, The invention of Chinese cities after the opening up. Between modernization and sustainability

6. RISKS IN URBAN LIFE
S. De Martino, The epidemic of the Late 14th Century BC and its effects on the Hittite Kingdom and its capital
F. D’Andria, Disaster risk in urban environments (Roman Era). The case of Hierapolis in Phrygia