ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the urban landscape of Assos and its neighbourhoods. It investigates the spatial planning of neighbourhoods and their social and economic aspects by focusing on the built environment, the inventory, and the households. The borders of Assos’ neighbourhoods can be drawn based on the geomorphology of the steep terrain and the streets. The houses in the south-western part of the city are now only recognizable by rubble heaps and by the remaining door stones of the entrances. In the middle Byzantine village Bogazkoy, the nature of activities within the courtyards of the homesteads can be determined. The larger courtyard building, surrounded by one- or two-room village houses, has three courts; two of these were used for different areas of activities. The bench, made up of two-column bases and a door lintel, was erected near the entrance to the former gymnasion, inside of which a church was built in the sixth century.
