Authourity and Cult
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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 8^th 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 4^th 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 15^th 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

Other Notes in this Category

1. Amenity Versus Enterprise
2. Archeaology of Islam
3. Arguments in Stone
4. Authourity and Cult
5. Conclusions
6. Contemporary and Future
7. Early Islamic and European Change
8. Introduction
9. Islamic Cities
10. Muslim Settlements

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