ABSTRACT
This chapter uses diverse examples from a wide time frame to build a composite picture of daily life in late Middle Age cities. The most common form of urban tenement in northern Germany in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was a gabled house on one side of a 14-15-metre-wide parcel; a vacant area was left between the houses for a path to an inner courtyard. Italian urban tenements during the thirteenth century generally had the short side to the front. Entryways for homes in Muslim cities were still on alleys that were off the main street. The Muslim cities had more sophisticated physical plants for sanitation purposes than did those of the west. The city streets were initially little more than mud tracks, for whatever paving the Romans had left had long since worn away. The chapter also deals with waterways, bridges, and transients and inns in late medieval cities.
