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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 The order of cities: ancient urban planning in the Mediterranean / SAMANTHA L. MARTIN-MCAULIFFE -- chapter 2 Urbanisation in inland Sicily: acculturation on the periphery of the Greek world / SPENCER POPE -- chapter 3 The urban development of late Hellenistic Delos MANTHA ZARMAKOUPI -- chapter 4 The collective image of a city: structure and meaning of Hellenistic agorai BARBARA SIELHORST -- chapter 5 The memory remains: non-verbal symbolic communication and the planning grid at Pednelissos (Pisidia, SW Turkey) / AHMET CINICI -- chapter 6 Cyrene and Apollonia: the Classical urban plan as a measure of opposites / LYNDA MULVIN -- chapter 7 Privileged topography: Vitruvius and the siting of Halicarnassus / DANIEL MILLETTE -- chapter 8 Razed or raised?: echoes of the Punic city in Roman Carthage / JESSICA AMBLER -- chapter 9 Triumph, power and providence in Roman town planning: the golden age of Flavian Rome / FLAVIA MARCELLO -- chapter 10 Albano: castrum to town / ALLAN CEEN |
| Summary |
"New Directions in Urban Planning in the Ancient Mediterranean assembles the most up-to-date research on the design and construction of ancient cities in the wider Mediterranean. In particular, this edited collection reappraises and sheds light on 'lost' Classical plans. Whether intentional or not, each ancient plan has the capacity to embody specific messages linked to such notions as heritage and identity. Over millennia, cities may be divested of their buildings and monuments, and can experience periods of dramatic rebuilding, but their plans often have the capacity to endure. As such, this volume focuses on Greek and Roman grid traces - both literal and figurative. This rich selection of innovative studies explores the ways that urban plans can assimilate into the collective memory of cities and smaller settlements. In doing so, it also highlights how collective memory adapts to or is altered by the introduction of re-aligned plans and newly constructed monuments."--Provided by publisher |
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City planning -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500
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Cities and towns, Ancient -- Mediterranean Region
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Cities and towns, Ancient
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City planning
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Mediterranean Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
M. Millette, Daniel, editor
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| ISBN |
9781315567006 |
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1315567008 |
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