What Are You Obsessing About Right Now?

i'm obsessing about this scientific paper that i've been reading by j andrew dufton. And it's called the architectural and social dynamics of gentrificaion in roman north africa, which is a very canameton potatoes title for an investigation of what gentrification looked like two thousand years ago. This is, he's part of a new wave of scholars who are really trying to use modern urban studies to think about what was going on in cities in antiquity. I mean, obviously in the ancient world they didn't have industrial capitalism, for example. But what they had in the early second century c e, through about the fourth century c e.