There has recently been a great deal of interest in the effects of the sizes of communities on the social and economic conditions of settlements, drawing on theoretical and empirical work on complex systems. However, although it is clear that there is a series of relationships between the sizes of sites and their various attributes in a range of modern and non-modern contexts, it is not yet known whether these relationships extend to life within settlements, between different neighbourhoods, blocks, or individual households. In this article, I investigate whether this is the case by focusing on one site, Pompeii. The results show that there is indeed a series of relationships between the sizes of structures, the numbers and different kinds of rooms within them, and the numbers and different kinds of artefacts associated with them, which increase at a similar rate to those from other contexts. This demonstrates, for the first time, that the same scaling phenomena that have been identified across both contemporary and non-modern urban systems can also be found within the built environment of a single, well-documented ancient settlement. This suggests that the same, or similar, social network effects exist at multiple social, spatial, and temporal scales, from individual houses to entire cities, opening up the possibility of building a series of much more ambitious theoretical and empirical models of urbanism in future, which trace the variation both within and across settlements back to the net socio-economic and infrastructural consequences of embedding social networks within built environments.

最近，人们利用复杂系统的理论和实证研究，对社区规模对聚居地社会和经济条件的影响产生了极大的兴趣。然而，尽管很明显，在一系列现代和非现代环境中，场地的大小及其各种属性之间存在一系列关系，但尚不清楚这些关系是否延伸到定居点内、不同社区之间的生活中。 、街区或个体户。在本文中，我通过关注庞贝古城这一地点来调查是否属于这种情况。结果表明，建筑物的大小、内部房间的数量和不同类型以及与之相关的文物的数量和不同类型之间确实存在一系列关系，这些关系的增长速度与其他环境中的类似。 。这首次表明，在当代和非现代城市系统中发现的相同尺度现象也可以在单个、有据可查的古代定居点的建筑环境中找到。这表明相同或相似的社会网络效应存在于多个社会、空间和时间尺度上，从个体房屋到整个城市，为未来建立一系列更加雄心勃勃的城市化理论和实证模型提供了可能性，它将定居点内部和之间的变化追溯到将社交网络嵌入建筑环境所带来的净社会经济和基础设施后果。