Title & Author:

Perspectives on public space in Rome, from antiquity to the present day / edited by Gregory Smith and Jan Gadeyne.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, Engalnd ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2013.

Description:

xxxiii, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-390) and index.
Omnis caesareo cedit labor amphitheatro, unum pro cuntis fama loquetur opus (mart., 1, 7-8: has the center of ancient Rome been shifting? / Royo Manuel -- Emperors, baths, and public space: the imperial thermae in Rome's late antique landscape / DeForest Dallas -- Shortcuts: observations on the formation of the medieval streets system in Rome / Gadeyne Jan -- Public access, action, and display in Rome of later anni mille / Yawn Lila -- La Loggia delle Benedizioni at St.peter's in the Quattrocento and the visualization of power / Jimborean Ioana -- Marcantonio Colonna and the victory at Lepanto: the framing of a public space at Santa Maria in Aracoeli / Anderson Paul -- SPQR capitolivm restitvit: the renovatio of the Campidoglio and Michelangelo's use of the giant order / Smithers Tamara -- From cattle market to public promenade: remaking the Forum in the seventeenth century / Cloud Jasmine -- Performance and politics in the urban spaces of Baroque Rome / Norman Joanna -- Public space as desire, dream and history: Freud and Rome / DiCori Paola -- Political public space in Rome from 1870 to 2011 / Vidotto Vittorio -- Narrating place: perspectives on Pier Paolo Pasolini's Rome / Smith Gregory -- The shape of public space: place, space, and junk space / Mayernik David -- Contemporary debates on public space in Rome / Cremaschi Marco.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9781409463696 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1409463699 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781409463702 (ebook)
1409463702 (ebook)
9781472404275 (ebk-ePUB)

Subject:

Public spaces Italy Rome History.
City planning Italy Rome History.
Land use, Urban Italy Rome.
Espaces publics Italie Rome Histoire.
Utilisation urbaine du sol Italie Rome.
City planning.
Land use, Urban.
Public spaces.
Öffentlicher Raum
Architektur
Städtebau
Offentliga platser.
Stadsplanering.
Historia.
Rome (Italy) History.
Rome (Italie) Histoire.
Italy Rome.
Rom.
Italien Rom.
Public space

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Smith, Gregory, 1951-
Gadeyne, Jan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290570
Call No.: BIB 233620
Status: Available