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• Numerous examples of settlements, whose history is known, depending for origin and development on ideological rather than ecological and economic factors.
• Segesta in Sicily – cult centre from 8th century onwards – isolated hills, unpromising location but settlement occurred.
• North Italy towns – new municipia land is ordered, and tow sited not through symbiosis with ecology but artificial units of intrusive dominance. Town born ideological message
• Ideology of Rome – great economic network, dedicated to material prosperity and cultural amenity – articulated through a federation if cities; Merovignians, Carolingians, Alfred the Great, Edward the First, Renaissance Magnates, Napoleon reinvented it.
• Research on slopes Palatine – city owes more to ideology than planning – 7 hills Rome occupied by settlements – forum developed on bogy ground between them where there was a stream. Coarelli’s says that annual procession, religious festival celebrated by all settlements – course procession became Via *Sacrahen Triumphal Way – communal cult buildings developed, developing into open assembly space of the Republic and Imperial Fora - Beneath Tarpeain rock nothing – sacrificial victims or criminals dropped – ideological concept of divine alliance, punishment and triumph – determined centre of Rome’s geography.
• New ideology embraced by Imperial state in 4th century – new monuments away from the old – new urban space developed under their influence. Places ideological nodes of early medieval city – journeys between them determined new arteries of life.
• Ephesus in 400 AD 0 Roman City new focus as Church St. Jon built outside city on hill of Ayasuluk – cave and cherished church devoid of water, rocky slope, became the “town” and renamed a destination for pilgrims into 15th century.
• Alpine region early Christian period – investment switched from urban amenities to churches and tombs, many outside the city walls. Technology, class distinctions and arguably the money still around, priorities different and material benefits dispersed.
• Movement of bones – extra mural cemeteries – urban place cannot be defined a town wall or a vestigal plan – geography of power and diagnostic use of space 4,5,10 kms from antique monumental zone.
• Three different impressions of the role of tons – examining use of space at different scales, different areas of focus – use of space not a natural or organic evolution, controlled by ideological and political factors – in turn generate an economic framework and mode of use

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