Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire
Ricardo González-Villaescusa, "Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire"
English | ISBN: 1032586265 | 2024 | 120 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1032586265 | 2024 | 120 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 7 MB
This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West.
With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This book provides a basic introduction to Roman cities, not through the lens of architecture and urbanism, but from a social, legal, cultural, spatial, and functional perspective. It focuses on the Roman civitas – the city and its territory – as the spatial model par excellence of Roman colonialism and expansion. Exploring primarily the cities and territories of the Western Empire, such as the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, and Britain, González-Villaescusa revives from their ruins those central places that facilitated the circulation of people, goods, and information, forming the large urban network of a unified imperial territory.
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