Rome - Kostof, Spiro

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Résumé :
This is the first urban history of Rome to span its entire three-thousand-year history.

Biographie:
Rabun Taylor is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published articles in the American Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, and Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. His books include Public Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome (2000) and Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process (2003).

Sommaire:
1. A bend in the river; 2. A storybook beginning; 3. Ideological crossfire; 4. Big men on the campus; 5. Res publica restitute; 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. Continuity and crisis; 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 romanit?; 35. A city turned inside out.