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22 kwi 2021 · The Augustan colony 55 of Turin 56 is a classic example of Roman city planning both because of the excellent preservation of the layout in the modern plan and because it was one of the first examples to bring into focus the general problems of delimitation.
It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.
1 sty 2014 · According to a variety of ancient sources, city planning involved ritual procedures inherited from the Etruscans and closely connected with the equipartition of the Cosmos according to cardinal directions. As a consequence, a role for astronomy has to be expected in Roman city planning.
Roman urban planning is the principles and practice employed in the founding, construction, expansion, and infrastructural maintenance of Roman nucleated settlements. The physical definition and subdivision of a new urban space was to prepare it for construction: its fortifications, paved streets, or buildings.
12 cze 2019 · These results suggest a new way of thinking about the spatial organisation of ancient cities. Although there is a great deal of variation in their design and amenities, there are also strong relationships between their population sizes and several measures of their urban forms.
21 sie 2019 · Wars, sacks, and negative comparison with better-situated and “planned” contemporary cities periodically sparked discussions about moving the center of Roman power, yet the locus of the early settlement on the shores of the Tiber, anchored by the practical advantages of the location and bolstered by the emotional attractions of its founding ...
The present work examines Greek, Etruscan, Italic, Hellenistic, and Roman cities that were based on orthogonal or grid plans – those characterized by streets intersecting at right angles to form blocks of regular size and spacing. Some of these have only recently been uncovered.
