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City Boundaries and Urban Development in Roman Italy

City Boundaries and Urban Development in Roman Italy

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Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, Book 16

Ancient RomeGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9042933054
ISBN13: 9789042933057
Publisher: Peeters
Published: May 30 2017
Pages: 335
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In Roman cities, boundaries were an important way of defining spaces.The significance of such boundaries was mediated by specific culturalrules. Besides physical boundaries, such as city walls and gates, alsoimmaterial ones, such as the pomerium, demarcated an urbancontext. Certain civic boundaries were highly visible and relevant toeveryone, while others were important to only a small number of people.This book takes a new approach to Roman urban boundaries and cityplanning by exploring the dynamics and interaction between urbandevelopment processes, city limits and the law. As a result, Romanattitudes towards the symbolic meanings of civic boundaries can bebetter understood. Not only landownership influenced and determined theuse of urban space and its boundaries; also conflicts and constantnegotiations between law, culture and tradition, politics, and thedynamics of everyday urban life were important for the way the Romansapproached urban limits.

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