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Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present Paperback – 17 November 2016

by Rabun Taylor (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. This is a study of the urban processes by which Rome's people and leaders, both as custodians of its illustrious past and as agents of its expansive power, have shaped and conditioned its urban fabric by manipulating geography and organizing space; planning infrastructure; designing and presiding over mythmaking, ritual, and stagecraft; controlling resident and transient populations; and exploiting Rome's standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.
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    1107601495
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    1st
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    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    17 November 2016
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    17.78 x 2.59 x 25.4 cm
  8. Print length
    452 pages
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'… this volume will be useful for scholars from many sub-fields looking to situate their work in the city's own history. … But the value of the large-scale urban biography model is precisely to make us think about patterns in the city's life over time. This book achieves its aims admirably, and will be valuable for students and researchers alike.' Amy Russell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (17 November 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 452 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1107601495
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1107601499
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 2.59 x 25.4 cm
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Rome: an Urban History from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2016), Rabun Taylor, Katherine Rinne, and Spiro Kostof.

My other recent books include:

"The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City" (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011). This book won the 2012 Spiro Kostof Award for Urban History from the Society of Architectural Historians and also won the 2011 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Prize in Landscape History from the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

"Francesco's Fountain," Katherine Rinne with illustrations by Sandra Forrest (New York: Four Fountains Press, 2011). This book is historical fiction for young adult readers who are interested in art and cities. It tells the story of a young stone apprentice who works on the famous Trevi Fountain in Rome. It is available in Rome at "The Almost Corner Bookstore" and through lulu.com.

"Architecture for a Hybrid Landscape: Proposals for the California Delta" (San Francisco: California College of the Arts, 2009).

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michael
5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome work.
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Rabun Taylor has a writing technique that anyone would enjoy. The many fires he chronicles help to understand why a great city crammed in to a small space could be so decimated over and over again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars and so can feel a bit too much like laundry lists of ‘street redesigns and buildings of a ...
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A truly ambitious book, this academic work moves chronologically through 3,000 years of the history of Rome in 35 chapters. Every chapter seeks to weave the story of the architecture and urban remodeling of a particular century or era with the current events of that period.
As a history buff seeking to strengthen my understanding of Rome’s urban development before our upcoming visit, this book was exactly what I was looking for. At its most successful, the authors manage to weave the historical background in with their architectural interests, to explore questions such as “Why was Rome founded where it was? How does the evolution of the forum and fora reflect evolving standards of government? How did Constantine (or any of a number of emperors) modify the city’s building programs? How did the medieval city garrison separate sections in mini-fortresses? How did individual popes envision urban improvements and church construction?” These explorations are helpfully supplemented with 228 maps and illustrations. Nevertheless, some chapters lose a bit of the historical narrative thread, and so can feel a bit too much like laundry lists of ‘street redesigns and buildings of a particular century.”
The book is rich, absorbing, and generally successful.
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