Roman Architecture and Urbanism

Roman Architecture and Urbanism
Author: Fikret Yegül
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-07-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108577067

Since antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yegül offer a comprehensive history and analysis of the Roman built environment, emphasizing design and planning aspects of buildings and streetscapes. They explore the dynamic evolution and dissemination of architectural ideas, showing how local influences and technologies were incorporated across the vast Roman territory. They also consider how Roman construction and engineering expertise, as well as logistical proficiency, contributed to the making of bold and exceptional spaces and forms. Based on decades of first-hand examinations of ancient sites throughout the Roman world, from Britain to Syria, the authors give close accounts of many sites no longer extant or accessible. Written in a lively and accessible manner, Roman Architecture and Urbanism affirms the enduring attractions of Roman buildings and environments and their relevance to a global view of architecture. It will appeal to readers interested in the classical world and the history of architecture and urban design, as well as wide range of academic fields. With 835 illustrations including numerous new plans and drawings as well as digital renderings.

Roman Urbanism

Roman Urbanism
Author: Helen Parkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2005-08-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134828136

The contributors to this volume provide an accessible and jargon-free insight into the notion of the Roman city; what shaped it, and how it both structured and reflected Roman society. Roman Urbanism challenges the established economic model for the Roman city and instead offers original and diverse approaches for examining Roman urbanization, bringing the Roman city into the nineties. Roman Urbanism is a lively and informative volume, particularly valuable in an age dominated by urban development.

Roman Urbanism

Roman Urbanism
Author: Helen Parkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2005-08-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134828144

The contributors to this volume provide an accessible and jargon-free insight into the notion of the Roman city; what shaped it, and how it both structured and reflected Roman society. Roman Urbanism challenges the established economic model for the Roman city and instead offers original and diverse approaches for examining Roman urbanization, bringing the Roman city into the nineties. Roman Urbanism is a lively and informative volume, particularly valuable in an age dominated by urban development.

Roman Urbanism in Italy

Roman Urbanism in Italy
Author: Alessandro Launaro
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2024-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This study presents new evidence for the development of commerce and inter-regional trade through survey and analysis of urban layout and architecture. The study of Roman urbanism – especially its early (Republican) phases – is extensively rooted in the evidence provided by a series of key sites, several of them located in Italy. Some of these Italian towns (e.g. Fregellae, Alba Fucens, Cosa) have received a great deal of scholarly attention in the past and they are routinely referenced as textbook examples, framing much of our understanding of the broad phenomenon of Roman urbanism. However, discussions of these sites tend to fall back on well-established interpretations, with relatively little or no awareness of more recent developments. This is remarkable, since our understanding of these sites has since evolved thanks to new archaeological fieldwork, often characterised by the pursuit of new questions and the application of new approaches. Similarly, new evidence from other sites has since prompted a reconsideration of time-honoured views about the nature, role and long-term trajectory of Roman towns in Italy. Tracing its origins in the Laurence Seminar on Roman Urbanism in Italy: recent discoveries and new directions, which took place at the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge (27–28 May 2022), this volume brings together scholars whose recent work at key sites is contributing to expand, change or challenge our current knowledge and understanding of Roman urbanism in Italy. The individual chapters showcase some of the most recent methods and approaches applied to the study of Roman towns, discussing the broader implications of fresh archaeological discoveries from both well known and less widely known sites, from the Po Plain to Southern Italy, from the Republican to the Late Antique period (and beyond).

Roman Urban Street Networks

Roman Urban Street Networks
Author: Alan Kaiser
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136760075

This book 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, Silchester, and Empúries, Alan Kaiser argues that ideals about the arrangement of space united the phenomenon of Roman urbanism.

Becoming Roman

Becoming Roman
Author: Greg Woolf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2000-07-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521789820

Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.

Water and Roman Urbanism

Water and Roman Urbanism
Author: Adam Rogers
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004249753

Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the meanings attributed to these places. Rather than a descriptive approach to the urban fabric it emphasises social context and cultural meaning through interpretative frameworks of analysis. Central are the cultural and experiential implications of water forming part of towns, rather than economic and practical arguments, and the way in which these places were used and altered over time. The book emphasises a social approach and has considerable implications for our understanding of life in the Roman period as a whole.

The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor

The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor
Author: Rinse Willet
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781781798430

investigates how Roman urbanism manifested itself in Asia Minor during the first three centuries CE, particularly with regards to its spatial patterning over the landscape and the administrative, economic and cultural functions cities fulfilled, and how cities developed in terms of size and monumentality.

Roman Architecture and Urbanism

Roman Architecture and Urbanism
Author: Fikret K. Yegül
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 915
Release: 2019
Genre: Architecture, Roman
ISBN: 0521470714

With 835 illustrations including numerous new plans and drawings as well as digital renderings.

Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World, 150 BCE - 250 CE

Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World, 150 BCE - 250 CE
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004414363

The focus of Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World is on urban hierarchies and interactions in large geographical areas rather than on individual cities. Based on a painstaking examination of archaeological and epigraphic evidence relating to more than 1,000 cities, the volume offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of Roman Gaul, North Africa, Sicily, Greece and Asia Minor. In addition it examines the transformation of the settlement systems of the Iberian Peninsula and the central and northern Balkan following the imposition of Roman rule. Throughout the volume regional urban configurations are examined from a rich variety of perspectives, ranging from climate and landscape, administration and politics, economic interactions and social relationships all the way to region-specific ways of shaping the townscapes of individual cities.