Urban form, infrastructure and spatial organisation in the Roman Empire

Although there has been considerable scholarly interest in the nature of ancient cities, it has been difficult to identify and explore quantitative patterns in their design and amenities. Here, the authors offer a model for the relationship between the population size and infrastructural area of set...

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Published in:Antiquity 2019-06, Vol.93 (369), p.702-718
Main Authors: Hanson, John W., Ortman, Scott G., Bettencourt, Luís M.A., Mazur, Liam C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archaeology
Cities
Excavation
Infrastructure
Roman civilization
Urbanism
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Summary:Although there has been considerable scholarly interest in the nature of ancient cities, it has been difficult to identify and explore quantitative patterns in their design and amenities. Here, the authors offer a model for the relationship between the population size and infrastructural area of settlements, before testing it against measures of urban form in the Roman Empire. They advocate a more consistent approach to the investigation of settlements that is capable of not only incorporating sites with divergent physical forms and historical trajectories into the same model, but also able to expose their similarities and differences.
ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.15184/aqy.2018.192