Main entry:

Taylor, Rabun M., author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

xvi, 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781107013995 hardcover alkaline paper
1107013992 hardcover alkaline paper
9781107601499 paperback alkaline paper
1107601495 paperback alkaline paper
9781139012911 (PDF ebook)

Subject:

Bibel Römerbrief
City and town life Italy Rome History.
Public spaces Italy Rome History.
City planning Italy Rome History.
Architecture and society Italy Rome History.
Christianity Social aspects Italy Rome History.
City dwellers Italy Rome History.
Vie urbaine Italie Rome Histoire.
Espaces publics Italie Rome Histoire.
Architecture et société Italie Rome Histoire.
Christianisme Aspect social Italie Rome Histoire.
Citadins Italie Rome Histoire.
Architecture and society.
Christianity Social aspects.
City and town life.
City dwellers.
City planning.
Geography.
Manners and customs.
Public spaces.
Social conditions.
Stadtentwicklung
Städtebau
Rome (Italy) Social life and customs.
Rome (Italy) Social conditions.
Rome (Italy) Geography.
Rome (Italie) Mœurs et coutumes.
Italy Rome.
Oudeheid-Heden

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Rinne, Katherine, author.
Kostof, Spiro, author.
Rinne, Katherine. author.
Kostof, Spiro author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294350
Call No.: BIB 239894
Status: Available