Drawing on archaeology, literary and epigraphic evidence, professional and technical literature, and descriptions of cities by travellers and geographers, the author traces the developments of town planning, revealing the importance of the city to political, religious, and social life in the Greek and Roman world.
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This is a useful and concise archaeological survey of ancient cities, which includes a glance at their aqueducts, sewers, and public buildings, and a brief appendix on the various laws the cities enacted to govern urban growth.
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....this is a fine first book on its topic...This book is not about the city in the identity-bestowing sense, but it provides necessary detail for such an understanding of one of the fundamental institutions of the Greco-Roman world.
–A.T. Kraabel, Religious Studies Review
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....this is a fine first book on its topic...This book is not about the city in the identity-bestowing sense, but it provides necessary detail for such an understanding of one of the fundamental institutions of the Greco-Roman world.
–A.T. Kraabel, Religious Studies Review
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E. J. Owens is Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University College of Swansea.
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The city was one of the fundamental institutions of the ancient world and as such was not confined to the civilisations of Greece and Rome. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
residential insulae, rectangular insulae, regular town planning, rural land division, grid planning, axial roads, celestial orientation, colonial planning, urban defences, regular planning, civic area, decumanus maximus, constructional methods, axial arrangement, street system, defensive qualities, street drains Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Smyrna, Near East, Asia Minor, Roman Empire, Augusta Treverorum, Alba Fucens, Peloponnesian War, Black Sea, Hippodamos of Miletos, Lepcis Magna, Megara Hyblaea, Via Valeria, Alexander the Great, Gulf of Arta New!
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The city was one of the fundamental institutions of the ancient world and as such was not confined to the civilisations of Greece and Rome. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
residential insulae, rectangular insulae, regular town planning, rural land division, grid planning, axial roads, celestial orientation, colonial planning, urban defences, regular planning, civic area, decumanus maximus, constructional methods, axial arrangement, street system, defensive qualities, street drains Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Smyrna, Near East, Asia Minor, Roman Empire, Augusta Treverorum, Alba Fucens, Peloponnesian War, Black Sea, Hippodamos of Miletos, Lepcis Magna, Megara Hyblaea, Via Valeria, Alexander the Great, Gulf of Arta New!
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- Roman Architecture in the Greek World (Occasional Papers) by S. Macready in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides on page 1, and Back Matter
- Orthogonal Town Planning in Antiquity by Ferdinando Castagnoli in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites by Richard Stillwell in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Greece and Rome (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Joan R. Mertens in Back Matter
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- Civic Justice: From Greek Antiquity to the Modern World by Peter Murphy on 4 pages
- After Paul Left Corinth: The Influence of Secular Ethics and Social Change by Mr. Bruce W. Winter on page 8, page 186, and Back Matter
- A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption by T. J. Gorringe on page 133, page 171, and Back Matter
- The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (Contemporary South Asia S.) by Diane Favro in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Water Supply System of Siena, Italy: The Medieval Roots of the Modern Networked City (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) by Michael P. Kucher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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