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Book: High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt

Chapter: A planned world? The early city, patterns and meanings of settlement

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.21391

Blurb:

The chapter reviews more deliberate treatments of settled space also through human intervention, especially
estates and their distribution, as much for symbolic as for pragmatic purposes.
Settlement, as the prime context of planning of human environments, is considered socially riven.

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