Rome and the Colonial City
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 fo...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-816082025-07-31T14:47:25Z Rome and the Colonial City Greaves, Sofia Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew History Ancient Rome Social Science Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology 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. 2022-05-13T08:49:21Z 2022-05-13T08:49:21Z 2022-04-22T05:31:35Z 2022 book OCN: 1305436129 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54092 9781789257823 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81608 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54092/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54092/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54092/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54092/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54092/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54092/1/external_content.pdf Oxbow Books Oxbow Books 53fda2f2-3fe6-4765-8758-df63da48bd65 9781789257823 European Research Council (ERC) Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Open Services Oxbow Books open access |
| spellingShingle | History Ancient Rome Social Science Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Rome and the Colonial City |
| title | Rome and the Colonial City |
| title_full | Rome and the Colonial City |
| title_fullStr | Rome and the Colonial City |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rome and the Colonial City |
| title_short | Rome and the Colonial City |
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| topic | History Ancient Rome Social Science Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
| topic_facet | History Ancient Rome Social Science Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
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