Public Pools as Public Spaces: The Role of Swimming and Bathing in Cities
Briefly

As social spaces, public baths, and pools offer an even more unusual experience. Here, regular conduct rules and norms no longer apply. Social nudity becomes the new norm, and, as people strip off their clothes, they also lose their status markers, transforming the pool into an egalitarian oasis.
The history of pools is strongly linked with the evolution of cities. The earliest pool we know of is 5000 years old, in the form of a brick tank at the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro.
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