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Author(s):	J. W. Hanson

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	178491472X
Pages:	826	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Although there have been numerous studies of individual cities or groups of cities, there has never been a study of the urbanism of the Roman world as a whole, meaning that we have been poorly informed not only about the number of cities and how they were distributed and changed over time, but also about their sizes and populations, monumentality, and civic status. This book provides a new account of the urbanism of the Roman world between 100 BC and AD 300. To do so, it draws on a combination of textual sources and archaeological material to provide a new catalogue of cities, calculates new estimates of their areas and uses a range of population densities to estimate their populations, and brings together available information about their monumentality and civic status for the first time. This evidence demonstrates that, although there were relatively few cities, many had considerable sizes and populations, substantial amounts of monumentality, and held various kinds of civic status. This indicates that there was significant economic growth in this period, including both extensive and intensive economic growth, which resulted from an influx of wealth through conquest and the intrinsic changes that came with Roman rule (including the expansion of urbanism). This evidence also suggests that there was a system that was characterized by areas of intense urban demand, which was met through an efficient system for the extraction of necessity and luxury goods from immediate hinterlands and an effective system for bringing these items from further afield. The disruption of these links seems to have put this system under considerable strain towards the end of this period and may have been sufficient to cause its ultimate collapse. This appears to have been in marked contrast to the medieval and early modern periods, when urbanism was more able to respond to changes in supply and demand.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: Text

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Urban Theory

Chapter Three: Numbers, Distributions, and Change over Time

Chapter Four: Sizes and Populations

Chapter Five: Monumentality

Chapter Six: Civic Status

Chapter Seven: Spatial Patterns

Chapter Eight: Discussion and Conclusions

Appendix

Bibliography

Figures

Index

Part Two: Catalogue

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