Roman Urban Street Networks

Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

AvAlan Kaiser,USA) Kaiser, Alan (University of Evansville

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The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the first volume to sift through the ancient literature to determine how authors used the Latin vocabulary for streets, and determine what that tells us about how the Romans perceived their streets. Author Alan Kaiser offers a methodology for describing the role of a street within the broader urban transportation network in such a way that one can compare both individual streets and street networks from one site to another. This work is more than simply an exploration of Roman urban streets, however. It addresses one of the central problems in current scholarship on Roman urbanism: Kaiser suggests that streets provided the organizing principle for ancient Roman cities, offering an exciting new way of describing and comparing Roman street networks. This book will certainly lead to an expanded discussion of approaches to and understandings of Roman streetscapes and urbanism.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-02-22
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Archaeology
Antal sidor268
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415886574

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'[Kaiser’s] data create a conversation among these four cities through the comparisons drawn between and among them that is the most valuable feature of the book.' - Classical Journal'Kaiser’s strongest contributions come from his comparative analyses of Roman cities. Individual chapters will help scholars specializing in each city, but the book as a whole reveals urban dynamics that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.' - Classical Journal'Kaiser brings a new and scientific approach to these cities and offers other scholars of Roman urbanism a strong set of tools for exploring other street networks and the placement of buildings along them.' - Classical Journal