Jan Gadeyne

Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day

Herausgeber: Smith, Gregory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Scholars specialized in different historical periods contributed chapters, in order to find common themes which weave their way through one of the most complex urban histories of western civilization. Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary) the volume opens with the issue of how public space was defined in classical Roman law and how ancient city managers organized the maintenance of these spaces, before moving on to explore how this legacy was redefined and reinterpreted during the Middle Ages. The third group of essays examines how the imposition of papal order on feuding families during the Renaissance helped introduce a new urban plan which could satisfy both functional and symbolic needs. The fourth section shows how modern Rome continued to express strong interest in the control and management of public space, the definition of which was necessarily selective in this vastly extensive city. The collection ends with an essay on the contemporary debate for revitalizing Rome's eastern periphery. Through this long-term chronological approach the volume offers a truly unique insight into the urban development of one of Europe's most important cities, and concludes with a discuss of the challenges public space faces today after having served for so many centuries as a driving force in urban history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 822g
• ISBN-13: 9781409463696
• ISBN-10: 1409463699
• Artikelnr.: 41563350

Autorenporträt

Jan Gadeyne, Gregory Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Presentation: crossroads in space and time
Ali Madanipour; Introduction
Gregory Smith and Jan Gadeyne; Part I Antiquity: Omnis Caesareo cedit labor amphitheatro
unum pro cuntis fama loquetur opus (Mart.
I
7-8)
Manuel Royo; Emperors
baths
and public space: the imperial thermae in Rome's late antique landscape
Dallas DeForest. Part II Middle Ages: Shortcuts: observations on the formation of the medieval street system in Rome
Jan Gadeyne; Public access
action
and display in Rome of the later anni milli
Lila Yawn. Part III Renaissance: La loggia delle benedizioni at St Peter's in the quattrocento and the visualization of power
Ioana Jimborean; Marcantonio Colonna and the victory at Lepanto: the framing of a public space at Santa Maria in Aracoeli
Paul Anderson; 'SPQR/CAPITOLIVM RESTITVIT': the Renovatio of the Campidoglio and Michelangelo's use of the giant order
Tamara Smithers. Part IV Baroque: From cattle market to public promenade: remaking the forum in the 17th century
Jasmine R. Cloud; Performance and politics in the urban spaces of Baroque Rome
Joanna Norman. Part V Modern: Public space as desire
dream and history: Freud and Rome
Paola Di Cori; Political public space in Rome from 1870 to 2011
Vittorio Vidotto. Part VI Contemporary: Narrating place: perspectives on Pier Paolo Pasolini's Rome
Gregory Smith; The shape of public space: place
space
and junkspace
David Mayernik; Contemporary debates on public space in Rome
Marco Cremaschi; Bibliography; Index.