Bachhuber/Citadel and Cemetery, 5. The Monumental Choreography of Citadels

The construction of citadels formed part of a process of ‘elite place-making’. Chapter 5 distinguishes between two kinds of citadel: one based on a plan with an obvious architectural and spatial hierarchy that is focused on large, central buildings, and one that is less hierarchical or more crowded and sprawling. Each was governed by a particular social logic, but the representation of space on both kinds of citadel begins to reveal an ethos of inequality that differentiates a citadel from a village. Chapter 5 concludes with an interpretation of a dramatic transition at Troy, when the centripetal plan of Troy IIc-e was transformed into the town plan of Troy IIf–III.