The seminar will discuss the topographies and spatiality of late Republican/early Imperial urban landscapes. In particular, the course will investigate the fluid interplay between ‘public’ and ‘private’ space, and how spatial configuration is linked to perception, movement and viewing. Central to the debate is the innovation and experimentation seen in public dedications in Rome and in domestic structures around the Bay of Naples. This will, in turn, frame critical debates on space and spatiality, visual impact and the agency of viewing, and movement and framing as a contextual devices.