The idea of a town : the anthropology of urban form in Rome, Italy and the ancient world / Joseph Rykwert.

Main entry:

Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-2024, author.

Title & Author:

The idea of a town : the anthropology of urban form in Rome, Italy and the ancient world / Joseph Rykwert.

Edition:

1st MIT ed.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1988.

Description:

242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Reprint with new pref. Previously published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1976.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-231) and index.
Town and rite: Rome and Romulus -- City and site -- Square and cross -- Guardians of centre, guardians of boundaries -- The parallels -- The city as a curable disease: ritual and hysteria.

Summary:

The idea of a town must be strong enough to survive the inevitable chaotic overlay of urban experience, Joseph Rykwert asserts in this fundamental book on urban form.

ISBN:

0262680564 (pbk.)
9780262680561 (pbk.)
0691039011
9780691039015

Subject:

City planning History.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Urban form History.
Villes antiques.
Urbanisme Histoire.
City planning
Stadt
Antike
Stadtplanung
Cities and towns Rome.
City planning Rome.
Architecture, Roman.
Rome Antiquities.
Rom.
Villes antiques Urbanisme Histoire.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74945
Call No.: ID:92-B2355
Status: Available

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