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Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism.
19 mar 2024 · In this study, we have revisited the indelible imprint of the Roman Empire on modern identities through the prism of cultural landscapes, reaffirming the thesis that the Roman Empire’s legacy is a pivotal element in shaping contemporary cultural identities.
“Depicting and explaining the development of the ‘modern’ Rome, from Napoleon’s urban planning laws in 1811 until the contemporary urban development, the book provides in-depth, informed and comprehensive insight into the complex socio-political, cultural and economic conditions that shaped spatial reality, in the same time leading the ...
25 maj 2020 · This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the fi rst centuries CE, integrating debates about...
10 cze 2010 · Roman cities were just like Greek cities. Rome's early urban development is a fascinating example of how new urban forms reflect social and economic change in the Iron Age Mediterranean world. Communications were vital: in this Rome was like Corinth, Carthage, or Miletus.
study of Roman towns than strictly archaeological ones. Such views, though not unknown in the past, are only now beginning to be applied methodically. Modern thinking about urbanism sug-gests new lines of attack, and classical texts, inscriptions, and legislation are being canvassed by scholars with new questions to ask of them. The results,
1 cze 2019 · For example, as the capital of the empire at the time, Rome's citybuilding, which began to culminate under Augustus, was of great symbolic importance, and the political and religious culture...
