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Roman Urban Street Networks - Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities (Paperback)
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Roman Urban Street Networks - Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
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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.
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