Greco-Roman urban form in its global context
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The grid plan has long been considered the hallmark of the Classical city, but grid plans are common to cultures around the world. This misconception arises from the fact that the Classical city is often studied in cultural isolation. To remedy this, the arrangements of Greek and Roman cities are compared with those of other ancient societies, with an eye towards how plans delimit space and control movement and how the forms of cities reflect the balance of power between centralized authorities and individual residents to shape and maintain the urban space. This reveals distinctive spatial organizational characteristics underlying the forms of Classical sites: street networks that allow for free circulation and a lack of large-scale zones of restricted access between public and private spaces. On the basis of this new urban morphological model, the Greco-Roman grid plan is recast not as a defining feature of the Classical city, but as a preferential feature implemented in select contexts.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ehrlich, Simeon David |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Morris, Ian, 1960- |
| Thesis advisor | Morris, Ian, 1960- |
| Thesis advisor | Netz, Reviel |
| Thesis advisor | Trimble, Jennifer, 1965- |
| Degree committee member | Netz, Reviel |
| Degree committee member | Trimble, Jennifer, 1965- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Simeon David Ehrlich. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Simeon David Ehrlich
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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