Roman Pompeii: Space and Society

ISBN-13: 9780415391252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 232 str.

Ray Laurence

Opis

Containing chapters that reveal how the young learnt the culture of the city, this work looks at the archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of architect, geographer and social scientist.

Recenzje

'Unpedantic presentation of a vast store of factual information, all scrupulously referenced.' - JACT Review

'[This] second edition is bigger, and it is better... [it] will find a ready place amongst contemporary scholarship on Pompeii. It is up to date, engaging, well researched, and full of a wide range of imformation that is at once valuable and provocative.' - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

1. Ancient and Modern Town Planning  2. Public Building and Urban Identity  3. Local Identity: Neighbours and Neighbourhoods  4. Production and Consumption  5. Deviant Behaviour  6. Street Activity and Public Interaction  7. The Production of Space  8.  Property Ownership and Urban Land Value  9. The Temporal Logic of Space  10. Urbanism and the Production of Adults  11. Urbanism in Roman Italy

O autorze

Ray Laurence