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City walls are fortifications built around urban areas to protect against invasions and control access. They typically consist of stone or brick structures and may include towers, gates, and moats. Historically significant, city walls reflect the military, political, and social dynamics of the time in which they were constructed.
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City walls are fortifications built around urban areas to protect against invasions and control access. They typically consist of stone or brick structures and may include towers, gates, and moats. Historically significant, city walls reflect the military, political, and social dynamics of the time in which they were constructed.

Key research themes

1. How do city walls function as both physical barriers and complex socio-political artefacts shaping identity, territoriality, and flows?

This theme explores the dual nature of city walls not only as defensive architectural structures but also as dynamic socio-political entities that mediate identity formation, territorial boundaries, and movement of people and goods. It challenges static interpretations of walls as mere separators, emphasizing their role in producing political meanings, affective experiences, and facilitating nuanced flows rather than absolute closures. Understanding this complexity informs debates on state sovereignty, urban materiality, and border politics.

Key finding: This work conceptualizes city walls as governmental technologies imbued with strategic and tactical dimensions that delineate territorial boundaries and shape urban social life. Walls not only determine physical limits but... Read more
Key finding: Building upon Foucauldian analyses of space and power, this article explicates how walls in urban contexts produce specific affordances that condition social control and conflict by shaping interrelations between space,... Read more
Key finding: The study foregrounds walls as manifestations of 'resurgent sovereignty' and technologies of state power that historically and contemporaneously materialize and negotiate territorial boundaries. Walls operate through... Read more

2. How do city walls serve as historical and cultural symbols reflecting and shaping collective memory, identity, and social narratives?

This research area investigates the role of city walls as emblematic sites inscribed with cultural, ethnic, and political meanings that contribute to collective memory and identity construction. It examines murals, public art, and heritage conservation linked to walls, highlighting their use in contesting grand historical narratives, mitigating cultural erasure, and symbolizing resilience or domination. These symbolic functions impact how communities relate to their environment and history, creating visible and tangible narratives that inform social cohesion and conflict.

Key finding: Through an analysis of the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural, this study reveals how the wall functions as a counter-hegemonic narrative space that physically inscribes marginalized ethnic histories into the public realm,... Read more
Key finding: This work conceptualizes walls transitioning from functional structures to places imbued with symbolic meaning, such as memorials and sites of collective memory (e.g., the ‘bathtub’ at the World Trade Center site). It shows... Read more
Key finding: Providing a historical perspective, this paper discusses how city walls have historically served to define, assert, and polarize ethnic, religious, and national identities. It highlights the enduring symbolic power of walls... Read more

3. What can archaeological and material analyses of ancient city walls reveal about their construction techniques, urban development, and social organization?

This theme examines ancient city walls from an archaeological perspective to understand their material composition, construction methods, spatial organization, and relation to urban growth. Studies characterize building materials, fortification strategies, and how walls interacted with city development, burial sites, and administrative processes. Insights into these aspects inform reconstructions of political complexity, defense needs, and socio-cultural dynamics in historical urban settlements.

Key finding: By employing SEM-EDX, XRD, and XRF analytical techniques on stone samples from Teos' Hellenistic walls and nearby quarries, this study precisely characterizes the geological and mineralogical properties of fortification... Read more
Key finding: Focusing on Tell es-Sâfi/Gath's Early Bronze Age walls, the paper highlights the massive scale and construction techniques involving large local fieldstones with mud-brick superstructures. It challenges conventional... Read more
Key finding: This thesis investigates the spatial placement of communal cemeteries outside Istanbul’s city walls across historical periods, demonstrating how burial grounds delineated perceived urban margins and influenced notions of city... Read more

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Cité fédérée, chef-lieu de cité, capitale de province, sanctuaire protohistorique, oppidum, projet urbain, enceinte augustéenne, forum, carroyage urbain, autel aux princes de la jeunesse, émissions monétaires. sur la forme urbaine. Des... more
Mots-clés. Cité fédérée, chef-lieu de cité, capitale de province, sanctuaire protohistorique, oppidum, projet urbain, enceinte augustéenne, forum, carroyage urbain, autel aux princes de la jeunesse, émissions monétaires. Résumé. Longtemps... more
Communal cemeteries of Istanbul were located outside the city’s borders in each historical period from Antiquity to the Byzantine and Ottoman times. In the 5th century, with the advent of the Theodosian walls, the burial topography... more
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Le pont des Grilles de la Basse-Seille constitue un des derniers vestiges de la fortification medievale de la ville de Metz et un des rares exemplaires de pont fortifie en France. Bâti a la fin du XIVe siecle, il est remblaye en 1911, ne... more
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Teos one of the twelve Ion cities, is located in the of Sığacık neighborhood Seferihisar district, 60 km southwest of Izmir. The city, on the southern coast of the peninsula Erythrea and Izmir is the bottleneck between the gulf sea of... more
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