Water and Roman urbanism : towns, waterscapes, land transformation and experience in Roman Britain /
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Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the meanings attributed to these places. Rather than a descriptive approach to the urban fabric it emphasises social context and cultural meaning through interpretative frameworks of analysis. Central are the cultural and experiential implications of water forming part of towns, rather than economic and practical arguments, and the way in which these places were used and altered over time. The book emphasises a social approach and has considerable implications for our understanding of life in the Roman period as a whole.
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1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004249752 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Urban dreams and realities in antiquity : remains and representations of the ancient city /
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A unique variety of approaches to all aspects of urban culture in the ancient world can be found in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity , a collection of 19 essays addressing ancient cities from an interdisciplinary perspective. As the title indicates, the volume considers both how ancient people lived in their cities as physical structures and how they thought with them as ideas and symbols. Essays in this volume deal with texts and sites from Spain to South India, but there is a particular focus on the archaeology and epigraphy of Roman-era Italy, civic identity in the Roman provinces, the Hebrew Bible and Early Christian literature, Vergil and other imperial Latin authors.
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1 online resource (xiv, 533 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004283893 :
0169-8958 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Athens from 1920 to 1940 : a true and just account of how history was enveloped by a modern city and the place became an event /
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During the short interwar period of the early 20th century, Athens entered into a process of meteoric urban transformation which gave her a unique place among European capital cities of the time. This work examines this topic.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) :
Specialized. :
9781784913120 (ebook) :
Schinkel 'in Athens' : meta-narratives of 19th-century city planning /
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This text offers a fresh appraisal of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's urban design legacy and his involvement in the design of modern Athens in the 1830s. It challenges the common perception of Schinkel's proposed palace atop the Acropolis of Athens (1834) as a utopian scheme, detached from the realities of nineteenth-century Greece.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (xxi, 269 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803270692 (PDF ebook) :
Recovering Beirut : Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction /
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Recovering Beirut , the result of a workshop organised by the Center for International Studies at MIT on urban planning and socio-economic reconstruction in post-war Lebanon, brings together established professors, young scholars, architects, town planners and entrepreneurs to explore the problems of and prospects for urban planning and to consider visions and strategies for the reconstruction of Lebanon after sixteen years of civil war. This fascinating volume, which opens with an introduction by the eminent scholar Richard Sennett, engages in multi-layered discussion of the problems of spatial, socio-economic and cultural rehabilitation of a fractured social order in the throes of post-war reconstruction. It contains 82 illustrations underlining the impact of the study.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004493094
9789004099111
City of Alexandria town planning scheme /
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At head of title: Municipality of Alexandria.
"Historical note on the city of Alexandria, by Dr. E. Breccia, curator of Alexandria municipal museum": pages 10-16
Descriptive notes and plans.
"Note on tree planting in the streets of Alexandria, by L. Monfront Bey, director of parks and plantations, Alexandria municipality": p. 16. :
3 preliminary leaves, 18 pages, 27 (i.e. 29) plates on 23 leaves, [3] folded plans ; 34 cm + (3 maps in pocket)
Houses in Herculaneum : A new View on the Town Planning and the Building of Insulae III and IV /
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In this study a new view is given on the city-plan of ancient Herculaneum, by combining the evidence from the ancient writers, the 19th century explorations and the analysis of the measurements of the excavated house-blocks ('insulae'). Furthermore, it contains a detailed examination of the southernmost insulae III and IV, with surprising results. First of all the allotment of these two insulae is made visible, which gives way to a discussion about the division of land in pre-Roman Campania. Furthermore, the author distinguishes some new types of houses, which differ from the already known atrium buildings.
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1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004669208