Alan Kaiser

Roman Urban Street Networks

Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415717519
• ISBN-10: 0415717515
• Artikelnr.: 38478165

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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