URSI 110--The City

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Dark Ages

Key Ideas:

• Feudal System
• Castle
• function
• administration
• defense
• civil live
• design)
• mound & courtyard
• stone keep
• concentric
• Organic “planning” (“Function over form”)
• Chartered (“free”) cities—“Stadtluft mach frei”

City Form

• Organic “planning”—hub and wall 1, 2, 3, 4
• Fortified town 1, 2, 3, 4
• Village & green 1, 2

Public Buildings

• Castle & Keep
• Mound & courtyard 1, 2, 3, 4
• Concentric 2, 3
• Stone keep
• Elements of Castle 1, 2, 3
• Wall 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7
• Gate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Keep 1, 2
• Churches 1, 2

Commercial/Industrial

• Three Estates: Clergy 1, 2, Nobility 1, 2, 3, 4 & Peasants
• The art (and engineering) of war 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Guild system 1, 2
• Yeomen 1,
• Market outside the wall
• Energy: water, wind, coal (and wood)

Residential/Daily Life

• High mortality rates
• Low literacy rates—in Western Europe; but…1, 2, 3
• Half-timbering (“Daub & Wattle”) 1, 2, 3
• Thatched roofs 1, 2, 3
• Cantilevering
• Narrow streets 1, 2
• Sanitation 1, 2

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© 2006 A.J.Filipovitch
Revised 19 Oct 2010