Roman Urban Street Networks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Urban Street Networks write by Alan Kaiser. This book was released on 2011-04-26. Roman Urban Street Networks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Roman Urban Street Networks
Roman Urban Street Networks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Urban Street Networks write by Alan Kaiser. This book was released on 2013. Roman Urban Street Networks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literaturverz. S. [229] - 244.
Remaking the City Street Grid
Remaking the City Street Grid - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remaking the City Street Grid write by Fanis Grammenos. This book was released on 2015-03-07. Remaking the City Street Grid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Of all the elements of a neighborhood, the pattern of streets and their infrastructure is the most enduring. Given the 20th century's additions to the range of transportation means--trains, subways, buses, trucks, bicycles, motorbikes and cars--all vying for space and effectiveness, a fresh look at the streets is warranted. This book contributes a new system of neighborhood design with a focus on contemporary planning priorities. Drawing lessons from historic and current development, it proposes a new pattern more fitting for modern culture, addressing such issues as walkability, mobility, health, safety, security, cost and greenhouse gas emissions. Case studies of national and international neighborhoods and districts based on the new network model demonstrate its application in real-world situations. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome
Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome write by Jacob A. Latham. This book was released on 2016-08-16. Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The pompa circensis was a political pageant and a religious ritual that produced a republican, imperial, and even Christian image of the city. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity.
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rome, Ostia, Pompeii write by Ray Laurence. This book was released on 2011-11-24. Rome, Ostia, Pompeii available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies from the three best-known cities from Roman Italy, revealing how movement contributes to our understanding of the ways different elements of society interacted in space, and how the movement of people and materials shaped urban development. The chapters in this book examine the impressions left by the movement of people and vehicles as indentations in the archaeological and historical record, and as impressions upon the Roman urban consciousness. Through a broad range of historical issues, this volume studies movement as it is found at the city gate, in public squares and on the street, and as it is represented in texts. Its broad objective is to make movement meaningful for understanding the economic, cultural, political, religious, and infrastructural behaviours that produced different types and rhythms of interaction in the Roman city. This volume's interdisciplinary approach will inform the understanding of the city in classics, ancient history, archaeology and architectural history, as well as cultural studies, town planning, urban geography, and sociology.
