Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/TYoxM3 Roman Urban Street Networks Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities By: Alan Kaiser Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415886574, 0415886570 eText ISBN: 9781136760068, 1136760067 Edition: 1st Pages: 268 Copyright year: 2011 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781136760068R90 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. Additional ISBNs 6613151300, 1136760067, 1136760075, 0203821815, 1283151308, 1136760024, 1136760016, 1136760040, 9780415886574, 9780415717519, 9782010041242, 0415886570, 0415717515, 2010041240
