Roman Urban Street Networks: Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities

ISBN-13: 9780415886574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 268 str.

Alan Kaiser

Opis

This volume explores how Roman perceptions of streets influenced their decisions about where to place urban buildings. Using textual evidence as well as the physical evidence from Pompeii, Ostia, and Silchester, Alan Kaiser argues that ideals about the arrangement of space united the phenomenon of Roman urbanism.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Textual Evidence for Roman Perceptions of Streets and Plazas  2. Defining and Analyzing Street Networks in the Archaeological Record  3. Pompeii  4. Ostia  5. Silchester  6. Empúries  7. Streets, Space and Roman Urbanism

O autorze

Alan Kaiser is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Evansville and author of The Urban Dialogue: An analysis of the use of space in the Roman city of Empúries, Spain. He has participated in archaeological projects in Spain, Italy, Greece, England, Nevis, and the United States.