Rome
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Rome

An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

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eBook - PDF

Rome

An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

About this book

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 everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. This is a study of the urban processes by which Rome's people and leaders, both as custodians of its illustrious past and as agents of its expansive power, have shaped and conditioned its urban fabric by manipulating geography and organizing space; planning infrastructure; designing and presiding over mythmaking, ritual, and stagecraft; controlling resident and transient populations; and exploiting Rome's standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781107013995
eBook ISBN
9781316680056
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Ancient Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Table of contents
  9. List of illustrations
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 A Bend in the River
  13. 2 A Storybook Beginning
  14. 3 Ideological Crossfire
  15. 4 Big Men on the Campus
  16. 5 Res Publica Restituta
  17. 6 Memorials in Motion: Spectacle in the City
  18. 7 The Concrete Style
  19. 8 Remaking Rome’s Public Core: I
  20. 9 Remaking Rome’s Public Core: II
  21. 10 Crisis And Continuity
  22. 11 Rus in Urbe: A Garden City
  23. 12 Administration, Infrastructure, and Disposal of the Dead
  24. 13 Mapping, Zoning, and Sequestration
  25. 14 Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome
  26. 15 Trophies and Tituli: Christian Infrastructure Before Constantine
  27. 16 Walls Make Christians: From Fourth to Fifth Century
  28. 17 A Tale of Two Romes
  29. 18 The Rome of Goths and Byzantines
  30. 19 Christian Foundations
  31. 20 From Domus Laterani to Romanum Palatium
  32. 21 The Leonine City: St. Peter’s and the Borgo
  33. 22 Via Papalis, the Christian Decumanus
  34. 23 The Urban Theaters of Imperium and SPQR
  35. 24 Housing Daily Life
  36. 25 Chaos in the Fortified City
  37. 26 The Tiber River
  38. 27 Humanist Rome, Absolutist Rome (1420–1527)
  39. 28 Planning Counter Reformation Rome
  40. 29 Processions and Populations
  41. 30 Magnificent Palaces and Rhetorical Churches
  42. 31 Neoclassical Rome
  43. 32 Picturing Rome
  44. 33 Revolution and Risorgimento
  45. 34 Italian Nationalism and Romanità
  46. 35 A City Turned Inside Out
  47. Glossary of Persons, Places, and Terms
  48. Works Cited
  49. Index