In Pompeii, Italy and Mani, Greece, two streets more than a thousand years apart follow the same dis-urban code.
These two streets are good examples of urbanism: they are narrow; chiefly or only pedestrian; have proportions and continuous wall for enclosure, and use natural, local materials for all surfaces that add strong texture and detail.
Both disobey a cardinal urbanist rule- eyes on the street. Not only the flanking hoouses have no porches, the ground floor is almost entirely opaque to the street; few, if any, very small windows set above the eye level to prevent eyes on the street LOOKING IN.
A coded, vernacular dis-urban practice(see articles by Besim Hakim). Mani photo by Doug Pollard.