Rome : an urban history from antiquity to the present /

Rome : an urban history from antiquity to the present /

Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyd...

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Main Authors: Taylor, Rabun M. (Author), Rinne, Katherine (Author), Kostof, Spiro (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
City and town life > Italy > Rome > History.
Public spaces > Italy > Rome > History.
City planning > Italy > Rome > History.
Architecture and society > Italy > Rome > History.
Christianity > Social aspects > Italy > Rome > History.
City dwellers > Italy > Rome > History.
Rome (Italy) > Social life and customs.
Rome (Italy) > Social conditions.
Rome (Italy) > Geography.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. A bend in the river
  • 2. A storybook beginning
  • 3. Ideological crossfire
  • 4. Big men on the Campus
  • 5. Res publica restitute
  • 6. Memorials in motion : spectacle in the city
  • 7. The concrete style
  • 8. Remaking Rome's public core I
  • 9. Remaking Rome's public core II
  • 10. Continuity and crisis
  • 11. Rus in urbe : a garden city
  • 12. Administration, infrastructure, and disposal of the dead
  • 13. Mapping, zoning, and sequestration
  • 14. Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome
  • 15. Trophies and tituli : Christian infrastructure before Constantine
  • 16. Walls make Christians : from fourth to fifth century
  • 17. A tale of two Romes
  • 18. The Rome of Goths and Byzantines
  • 19. Christian foundations
  • 20. From Domus Laterani to Romanum palatium
  • 21. The Leonine City : St Peter's and the Borgo
  • 22. Via Papalis, the Christian decumanus
  • 23. The Urban theaters of imperium and SPQR
  • 24. Housing daily life
  • 25. Chaos in the fortified city
  • 26. The Tiber River
  • 27. Humanist Rome, absolutist Rome (1420-1527)
  • 28. Planning Counter-Reformation Rome
  • 29. Processions and populations
  • 30. Magnificent palaces and rhetorical churches
  • 31. Neoclassical Rome
  • 32. Picturing Rome
  • 33. Revolution and Risorgimento
  • 34. Italian nationalism and romanit ...
  • 35. A city turned inside out.

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