Water And Roman Urbanism

Author : Adam Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004249752

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Water and Roman Urbanism by Adam Rogers Pdf

Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the meanings attributed to these places. Rather than a descriptive approach to the urban fabric it emphasises social context and cultural meaning through interpretative frameworks of analysis. Central are the cultural and experiential implications of water forming part of towns, rather than economic and practical arguments, and the way in which these places were used and altered over time. The book emphasises a social approach and has considerable implications for our understanding of life in the Roman period as a whole.

Author : Jay Ingate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351797832

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Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain by Jay Ingate Pdf

The establishment of large-scale water infrastructure is a defining aspect of the process of urbanisation. In places like Britain, the Roman period represents the first introduction of features that can be recognised and paralleled to our modern water networks. Writers have regularly cast these innovations as markers of a uniform Roman identity spreading throughout the Empire, and bringing with it a familiar, modern, sense of what constitutes civilised urban living. However, this is a view that has often neglected to explain how such developments were connected to the important symbolic and ritual traditions of waterscapes in Iron Age Britain. Water and Urbanism in Roman Britain argues that the creation of Roman water infrastructure forged a meaningful entanglement between the process of urbanisation and significant local landscape contexts. As a result, it suggests that archetypal Roman urban water features were often more related to an active expression of local hybrid identities, rather than alignment to an incoming continental ideal. By questioning the familiarity of these aspects of the ancient urban form, we can move away from the unhelpful idea that Roman precedent is a central tenet of the current unsustainable relationship between water and our modern cities. This monograph will be of interest to academics and students studying aspects of Roman water management, urbanisation in Roman Britain, and theoretical approaches to landscape. It will also appeal to those working more generally on past human interactions with the natural world.

Author : Nicola Chiarenza,Annette Haug,Ulrich Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110677065

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The Power of Urban Water by Nicola Chiarenza,Annette Haug,Ulrich Müller Pdf

Wasser ist eine globale Ressource für heutige Gesellschaften – Wasser war eine globale Ressource vormoderner Gesellschaften. Die manigfaltigen unterschiedlicher Wassersysteme für Prozesse der Urbanisierung und das urbane Leben in der Antike und dem Mittelalter ist bislang kaum erforscht. Die zahlreichen Beiträge dieses Bandes fragen nach der grundlegenden kulturellen Bedeutung von Wasser ( bzw. power of water) in der Stadt und Wasser für die Stadt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Symbolische, ästhetische oder kultische Aspekte werden ebenso thematisiert wie die Rolle von Wasser in Politik, Gesellschaft oder Wirtschaft und dem alltäglichen Handeln, aber auch in Stadtplanungsprozessen oder städtischen Teilräumen. Nicht zuletzt stellen die Gefahren von verschmutzten Wasser oder Überschwemmungen die städtische Gesellschaft vor Herausforderungen. Die Beiträge diesen Band lenken den Blick auf die komplexen und vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Wasser und Menschen. Das Sammelwerk präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung in Kiel 2018. Es wendet sich gleichermaßen an Leser aus den altertumskundlichen wie mediävistischen Fächern und darüberhinaus an alle Interessierten, die sich über die Vielfalt von Wassersystemen im Stadtraum der Antike und des Mittelalters informieren möchten.

Author : Mark Anthony Locicero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9400603444

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Liquid Footprints by Mark Anthony Locicero Pdf

Author : Rabun M. Taylor
Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8882651002

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Public Needs and Private Pleasures by Rabun M. Taylor Pdf

A meticuously detailed investigation of Rome's practical solution to the problems of providing and distributing the city's water supply between the end of the Republic and Trajan's reign. Taylor's principal aims are to determine where and why aqueduct systems crossed the Tiber and to assess the function of the enigmatic Aqua Alsietia. An initial discussion of the technical and legal context for aqueduct planning is followed by a topographical inquiry into several specific aqueducts including the four earliest aqueduct river crossings: the Aqua Appia, Anio Velus, Aqua Marcia and the Aqua Virgo. Taylor also examines the expansion and organisation of water supply within the Transiberim, a heavily populated district of Rome to the west of the Tiber, and assesses its influence on Rome's wider urban policy.

Author : Helen Parkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134828135

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Roman Urbanism by Helen Parkins Pdf

The contributors to this volume provide an accessible and jargon-free insight into the notion of the Roman city; what shaped it, and how it both structured and reflected Roman society. Roman Urbanism challenges the established economic model for the Roman city and instead offers original and diverse approaches for examining Roman urbanization, bringing the Roman city into the nineties. Roman Urbanism is a lively and informative volume, particularly valuable in an age dominated by urban development.

Author : Nicola Chiarenza,Annette Haug,Ulrich Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110677126

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The Power of Urban Water by Nicola Chiarenza,Annette Haug,Ulrich Müller Pdf

Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle Ages have hardly been researched until now. The numerous contributions to this volume pose questions such as what the basic cultural significance of water was, the power of water, in the town and for the town, from different points of view. Symbolic, aesthetic, and cult aspects are taken up, as is the role of water in politics, society, and economy, in daily life, but also in processes of urban planning or in urban neighbourhoods. Not least, the dangers of polluted water or of flooding presented a challenge to urban society. The contributions in this volume draw attention to the complex, manifold relations between water and human beings. This collection presents the results of an international conference in Kiel in 2018. It is directed towards both scholars in ancient and mediaeval studies and all those interested in the diversity of water systems in urban space in ancient and mediaeval times.

Author : Dylan Kelby Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004368972

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Water Culture in Roman Society by Dylan Kelby Rogers Pdf

This article seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water.

Author : Fikret Yegül,Diane Favro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521470711

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Roman Architecture and Urbanism by Fikret Yegül,Diane Favro Pdf

Investigates Roman built environments from architectonic and planning perspectives, while celebrating the achievements of the provinces as well as Italy.

Author : Tatjana Lolić
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789696240

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Urbanism of Roman Siscia by Tatjana Lolić Pdf

By processing data from every archaeological excavation, and analysis and interpretation of all available historical and modern documents, this volume presents a thorough overview of the structure of Roman Siscia (modern day Sisak, Croatia) and provides a comprehensive starting point for all future work on the Roman city.

Author : O. F. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134844937

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Ancient Rome by O. F. Robinson Pdf

Rome was a huge city. Running it required not only public works and services but also specialised law. This innovative work traces the development of that law and system in the main areas of administration. The book incorporates and develops previous historical and topographical works by relating their findings to the Roman legal framework, building up a portrait of public administration, unusually comprehensive for the ancient world.

Author : Julian Richard
Publisher : Brepols Pub
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 250353449X

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Water for the City, Fountains for the People by Julian Richard Pdf

Monumental fountains were essential utilitarian and aesthetic components of any well-to-do Roman urban center. Besides their functional role of providing water, they were also designed to express the social, political and religious universe of Roman cities. Prominently located in public spaces, they were active bearers of collective and individual identities. This study examines the function and the symbolic meaning of monumental fountains within the complex framework of urban life in the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Different aspects of monumental fountains -architecture, hydro-technical apparatus, sculpture assemblages, epigraphy, .- were studied from an integrated perspective in order to draw an exhaustive picture of these ubiquitous symbols of opulence and self-representation.

Author : Martin Henig,Jason Lundock
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803273013

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Water in the Roman World by Martin Henig,Jason Lundock Pdf

Offering a wide and expansive new treatment of the role water played in the lives of people across the Roman world, papers consider ports and their lighthouses; water engineering, whether for canals in the north-west provinces, or for the digging of wells for drinking water; baths for swimming; and spas.

Author : Mark A. Locicero
Publisher : Leiden University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9087283237

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Liquid Footprints by Mark A. Locicero Pdf

This study opens a dialogue between first and twenty-first century successes and failures in our urban relationship with water. This publication examines the archaeological evidence from three city blocks in Ostia, focusing on elements of the water systems identified by past excavations and within unpublished archival material. Inspired by the diversity of research approaches currently used to assess the sustainability of water in contemporary cities, this study presents the Roman Water Footprint, which diachronically assesses changes to all parts of a hydraulic system (supply, usage, drainage). At the same time, the Roman Water Footprint calculates socio-cultural expressions of water usage, and uses paleo-environmental data to highlight the dynamic natural presence of water. The use of the Roman Water Footprint offers a new look at the wider context of ancient water systems and how they changed over time. This study opens a dialogue between first and twenty-first century successes and failures in our urban relationship with water.

Author : Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469621296

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The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow Pdf

The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and runoff from walkways and roads, and public and private latrines. Through the archeological record, graffiti, sanitation-related paintings, and literature, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow explores this little-known world of bathrooms and sewers, offering unique insights into Roman sanitation, engineering, urban planning and development, hygiene, and public health. Focusing on the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia, and Rome, Koloski-Ostrow's work challenges common perceptions of Romans' social customs, beliefs about health, tolerance for filth in their cities, and attitudes toward privacy. In charting the complex history of sanitary customs from the late republic to the early empire, Koloski-Ostrow reveals the origins of waste removal technologies and their implications for urban health, past and present.