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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Taylor, Rabun M., author.
Rinne, Katherine Wentworth, author.
Kostof, Spiro, author.
Contributor:
Cambridge University Press.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
City and town life--Italy--Rome--History.
City and town life.
Public spaces--Italy--Rome--History.
Public spaces.
City planning--Italy--Rome--History.
City planning.
City dwellers.
History.
Christianity--Social aspects.
Christianity.
Architecture and society.
Italy--Rome.
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).
Rome (Italy)--Social conditions.
Rome (Italy)--Geography.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 432 pages) : illustrations, maps
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
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. 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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
9781139012911
1139012916
Publisher Number:
99969998236
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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