Dunia Filippi, former advanced Marie Slodowska-Curie Fellow, is affiliated Researcher at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK. She is interested in urban and social settlement, the topography of ancient Rome during its long life span, residential building and archaeological theory and methodology. She has reconstructed the topography of the 8th Augustan region "Forum Romanum Magnum". She has recently co-edited the edition of the excavation over twenty years at the North Slope of the Palatine hill, in Rome (a 100 ha stratigraphic deposit between the 12th cent. BCE and the 14th cent. CE).

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PART 1

Methodological approaches

Chapter 1

Topography between two worlds: William Gell and Antonio Nibby

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill with Martin Millett

Chapter 2

Some thoughts on current trends in the archaeology of urban contexts and rural landscapes in the Mediterranean world

Stefano Campana

PART 2

Cities with optimal data: Rome, Ostia and Pompeii

Chapter 3

Topography and Classical Archaeology: Landscape biography

Paolo Carafa

Chapter 4

Sensory-spatial history at Ostia: The embodied space of street porticoes

Jeffrey D. Veitch

Chapter 5

Rethinking Relationships between Ostia and Portus

Simon Keay

Chapter 6

Visual communication in the streets of Pompeii

Annette van Haug and Philipp Kobutsch

PART 3

A key public space in the Roman city: The Forum

Chapter 7

Archaeologists in the Roman Forum

Dunia Filippi

Chapter 8

Historians in the Forum

Nicholas Purcell

Chapter 9

Children and Public Space in Early Imperial Rome

Ray Laurence

Chapter 10

Transformations of public space in the cities of Italy under the Principate: the case of the Forum

John Patterson

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