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Rome : an urban history from antiquity to the present

Taylor, Rabun M., author, Rinne, Katherine, author, Kostof, Spiro, author

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\"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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 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. / Rome (Italy) Social life and customs / Rome (Italy) Social conditions. / Rome (Italy) Geography.
• ISBN: 9781107013995, 9781107601499

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DG809.T39 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE