Research Catalog

Title

Rome : an urban history from antiquity to the present / Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Spiro Kostof.

Author

Taylor, Rabun M.

Publication

• New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rinne, Katherine
• Kostof, Spiro

Description

xvi, 432 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subjects

• Rome (Italy) > Social life and customs
• Rome (Italy) > Geography
• Rome (Italy) > Social conditions
• City dwellers > Italy > Rome > History
• City planning > Italy > Rome > History
• Public spaces > Italy > Rome > History
• Architecture and society > Italy > Rome > History
• Christianity > Social aspects > Italy > Rome > History
• City and town life > Italy > Rome > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. A bend in the river -- 2. A storybook beginning -- 3. Ideological crossfire -- 4. Big men on the Campus -- 5. Res publica restituta -- 6. Memorials in motion : spectacle in the city -- 7. The concrete style -- 8. Remaking Rome's public core I -- 9. Remaking Rome's public core II -- 10. Crisis and continuity -- 11. Rus in urbe : a garden city -- 12. Administration, infrastructure, and disposal of the dead -- 13. Mapping, zoning, and sequestration -- 14. Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome -- 15. Trophies and tituli : Christian infrastructure before Constantine -- 16. Walls make Christians : from fourth to fifth century -- 17. A tale of two Romes -- 18. The Rome of Goths and Byzantines -- 19. Christian foundations -- 20. From Domus Laterani to Romanum palatium -- 21. The Leonine City : St Peter's and the Borgo -- 22. Via Papalis, the Christian decumanus -- 23. The Urban theaters of imperium and SPQR -- 24. Housing daily life -- 25. Chaos in the fortified city -- 26. The Tiber River -- 27. Humanist Rome, absolutist Rome (1420-1527) -- 28. Planning Counter-Reformation Rome -- 29. Processions and populations -- 30. Magnificent palaces and rhetorical churches -- 31. Neoclassical Rome -- 32. Picturing Rome -- 33. Revolution and Risorgimento -- 34. Italian nationalism and romanità -- 35. A city turned inside out.

Call Number

JFF 17-280

ISBN

• 9781107013995
• 1107013992
• 9781107601499
• 1107601495

LCCN

• 2016008186
• 40026618953

OCLC

944246463

Author

Taylor, Rabun M., author.

Title

Rome : an urban history from antiquity to the present / Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Spiro Kostof.

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Rinne, Katherine, author.

Kostof, Spiro, author.

Other Standard Identifier

40026618953

Research Call Number

JFF 17-280