Roman urban street networks / / Alan Kaiser

• Autore: Kaiser Alan
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 937
• Soggetto topico: Streets - Rome - History; Plazas - Rome - History; Street life - Rome - History; City and town life - Rome - History; Public spaces - Rome - History; Cities and towns - Rome - History; City planning - Rome - History
• Soggetto geografico: Rome Social life and customs; Rome Antiquities; Rome History, Local
• Note generali: "Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Textual evidence for Roman perceptions of streets and plazas -- Defining and analyzing street networks in the archaeological record -- Pompeii -- Ostia -- Silchester -- Empúries -- Streets, space, and Roman urbanism.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 broade
• Titolo autorizzato: Roman urban street networks
• ISBN: 1-136-76006-7; 1-283-15130-8; 9786613151308; 1-136-76007-5; 0-203-82181-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822923103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in archaeology ; ; 2.