Urban and Rural Land Division in Ancient Greece

Boyd, Thomas D.; Jameson, Michael H.

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“…The term geometry is also linked to the Geomoroi (literally, the "Land-Sharers"), an elite class of landowners during the Archaic Greek period (800-479 BCE), 24 due to "the way Geomoroi 'geometrically' divided up their land." 25 As indeed exposed by Boyd and Jameson 26 "implicit in the foundation of new colonies was the notion of equality among the members, exemplified in the division of their prime resource, the land. To achieve this, accurate measurement and equitable division were from the outset essential […].…”

Section: Conclusion and Future Researchmentioning

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Constructal view of the long lots system

Périn¹

2020

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The long lots system, also known as the ribbons farming system, is a historical land use pattern, which can be encountered in some specific regions of the world, including in North America, both in the Nouvelle-France, and in the New-Mexico regions. In this paper, we show that, in the late 1990s, the first publications on Constructal Theory, which discussed topics such as urban street patterns or airport systems design, already contained the principles underlying the emergence of the man-made long lots system, but had not yet been linked to land use patterns such as the ribbons farming system. We show that this farming pattern is driven by the Constructal Law. It leads to land use geometries similar, at a human scale, to computer cooling systems. In brief, like many natural designs, the long lots system emerges as a "urge to organize" under local and global constraints specific to the economy of agricultural products trade, and according to the Constructal Law of evolving flow systems. The design of long lots systems can thus be viewed as a historical precursor of the Constructal Design approach, an approach worth considering in the design of sustainable cities.

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Constructal view of the long lots system

Périn¹

2020

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“…Comparison between the binned frequency distribution ( fig. 12) of these areas with different Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman areal metric quanta provides no obvious 'best' candidate, especially because the distribution curve is relatively shallow, meaning that, even if one candidate were more likely, the precision with which that measure was reached would be very low (for derivation and discussion of quanta values, see, on Hellenistic systems: Boyd, Jameson 1981;Heimberg 1984;imperial Roman: Thonemann 2011: 254-55;Byzantine: Davies 2004;Ottoman: Inalcık 1983). If the identified enclosures were not defined by one single systematic geometric system, and certainly not a large-scale planned division of land, we are left with two possibilities.…”

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An agro-pastoral palimpsest: new insights into the historical rural economy of the Milesian peninsula from aerial and remote-sensing imagery

Wilkinson

Slawisch

2020

Anatol. Stud.

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AbstractExamination of a number of satellite and aerial images of the Milesian peninsula has allowed the mapping of a large number of apparently ancient linear features across the landscape. These are here interpreted, for the most part, as relicts of agro-economic field systems of unknown date, but most plausibly established during the Archaic, Hellenistic or late antique periods and perhaps used for centuries after, before the economic decline of the region in the second millennium AD. While earlier survey work has noted the existence of terracing and rural divisions at certain points in the landscape, the new remote-sensing data have provided an unprecedented large-scale insight into the extent and variety of forms of division, as well as documenting the stripping of macquis overgrowth by modern farming practices, which has, on the one hand, exposed these ancient landscapes but also, on the other, poses a threat to their preservation. The extent of the linear features suggests a high degree of land use on the peninsula at certain points in the past. Further investigation of these important features has the potential to provide critical insights into the economic history of rural and urban Miletos over the last 2,000 to 5,000 years.

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“…Cahill 2002, 219-221;Boyd and Jameson 1981;hellmann 2010, 203-204;Martin 1973), there may also be a degree of correlation between the development of rural and urban courtyard houses, where the farmhouse courtyard served even more pronounced utilitarian functions for subsistence (hellmann 2010, 139-155). Cahill 2002, 219-221;Boyd and Jameson 1981;hellmann 2010, 203-204;Martin 1973), there may also be a degree of correlation between the development of rural and urban courtyard houses, where the farmhouse courtyard served even more pronounced utilitarian functions for subsistence (hellmann 2010, 139-155).…”

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Greek Domestic Architecture

Ault¹

2016

A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome

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It is well to understand tactics too; for there is a wide difference between right and wrong disposition of the troops, just as stones, bricks, timber and tiles flung together anyhow are useless, whereas when the materials that neither rot nor decay, that is, the stones and tiles, are placed at the bottom and the top, and the bricks and timber are put together in the middle, as in building, the result is something of great value, a house, in fact. (Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.1.7; trans. Marchant 1938) this metaphorical observation by Xenophon's Socrates enumerates the primary ingredients for Greek house building, and also the rudimentary sequence of Greek domestic architecture, and construction in general. Stone, tile, brick, and timber comprise the principal materials. Not "flung together," but properly ordered, like the troops which are the actual matter of his concern, so that "… the materials that neither rot nor decay, that is, the stones and tiles, are placed at the bottom and the top, and the bricks and timber are put together in the middle." But this was not always so, in Greece or elsewhere. there are other options for building materials and house construction: the use of wattle and daub, wood or rammed earth (pisé), pit or thatch houses, to name just a few. But the Greeks opted for, and indeed developed, a form of construction which remained superior and standard for vernacular building into the pre-modern era and is still a viable option for traditional house forms today, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Greek construction preferences were shaped not only by the availability and suitability of building materials, but also by the form they would ultimately assume, namely, that of the courtyard house. Whether located as isolated structures in the countryside or crowded together side by side in an urban setting, the courtyard house came to dominate.

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Urban and Rural Land Division in Ancient Greece

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Constructal view of the long lots system

Constructal view of the long lots system

An agro-pastoral palimpsest: new insights into the historical rural economy of the Milesian peninsula from aerial and remote-sensing imagery

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