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1 online resource. |
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Impact of the ancient city |
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Impact of the ancient city.
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| Summary |
According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman. |
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Intro -- Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction: Decolonising the Roman grid -- Part 1. City planning and ideals of the city -- 2. Reflections on egalitarianism and the foundation of Greek poleis -- 3. Ancient ideals and modern interpretations -- 4. Ruling the realm: Sovereign spaces and the spatial ordering of medieval towns -- 5. Making men and cities: Francesc Eiximenis on the reasons for city-founding |
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6. Ancient cities in new worlds: Neo-Latin views and classical ideals in the sixteenth century -- 7. Ideals of the city in the early Islamic foundation stories of Kufa and Baghdad -- 8. The grid enframed: Mapping the enframings of the North American grid -- Part 2. Roman colonisation and urban experimentation -- 9. Urban settlement in Emilia Romagna: Between spontaneous development, grid-planning and post-antique adaptation -- 10. The long-term aspects of urban foundation in the cities of Roman Africa Proconsularis |
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11. No colonies and no grids: New cities in the Roman east and the decline of the colonial urban paradigm from Augustus to Justinian -- 12. Foundational grids and urban communities in the Iberian Peninsula in antiquity and the Middle Ages -- 13. Town planning from Falerii to Isurium: Understanding and enhancing the archaeological evidence -- Part 3. The impact of the Roman urban model -- 14. From Potentia to Porto Recanati: The Roman coastal colony and its modern legacy -- 15. New towns of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries and the grid plan |
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16. Ildefonso Cerdà and the Eixample grid plan (1859). To be or not to be Rome? -- 17. Searching for Rome: French colonial archaeology and urban planning in Morocco -- 18. Planning the colonial capital: Khartoum and New Delhi -- 19. Roma rediviva: The uses of romanità in Fascist-era urbanism |
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Rome -- Civilization -- Miscellanea.
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Grid plans (City planning) -- History.
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Rome -- Civilisation -- Miscellanées.
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Plans en damier (Urbanisme) -- Histoire.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Civilization
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Grid plans (City planning)
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Rome (Empire)
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Electronic books.
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History
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Trivia and miscellanea
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1789257808 9781789257809 (OCoLC)1266253946 |
| ISBN |
9781789257816 (electronic bk.) |
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1789257816 (electronic bk.) |
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9781789257823 (electronic bk.) |
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1789257824 (electronic bk.) |
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1789257808 |
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9781789257809 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000075844482 |
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AU@ 000075845973 |
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AU@ 000075857548 |
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AU@ 000075873305 |
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