Rabun Taylor is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published articles in the American Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, and Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. His books include Public Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome (2000) and Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process (2003).
1. A bend in the river
2. A storybook beginning
3. Ideological crossfire
4. Big men on the campus
5. Res publica restitute
6. Memorials in motion: spectacle in the city
7. The concrete style
8. Remaking Rome's public core I
9. Remaking Rome's public core II
10. Continuity and crisis
11. Rus in urbe: a garden city
12. Administration, infrastructure, and disposal of the dead
13. Mapping, zoning, and sequestration
14. Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome
15. Trophies and tituli: Christian infrastructure before Constantine
16. Walls make Christians: from fourth to fifth century
17. A tale of two Romes
18. The Rome of Goths and Byzantines
19. Christian foundations
20. From Domus laterani to Romanum palatium
21. The Leonine City: St Peter's and the Borgo
22. Via Papalis, the Christian decumanus
23. The urban theaters of imperium and SPQR
24. Housing daily life
25. Chaos in the fortified city
26. The Tiber River
27. Humanist Rome, absolutist Rome (1420-1527)
28. Planning Counter-Reformation Rome
29. Processions and populations
30. Magnificent palaces and rhetorical churches
31. Neoclassical Rome
32. Picturing Rome
33. Revolution and Risorgimento
34. Italian nationalism and romanità
35. A city turned inside out.
