| Abstract: |
Contains: the editors (viii-xvi), Introduction: the study of Classical urban topography; Barry Cunliffe (1-5), Aspects of urbanization in northern Europe. Part 2: The planning and building of Roman towns: O A W Dilke (6-13), Ground survey and measurement in Roman towns; Roger Ling (14-27), The mechanics of the building trade; R P Duncan-Jones (28-33), Who paid for public buildings in Roman cities?; S S Frere (34-6), Civic pride: a factor in Roman town planning; Richard Reece (37-40), Roman towns and their plans [large-small town differences]; J S Wacher (41-2), The functions of urban buildings: some problems [above-ground restorations; dual functions]; John Casey (43-8), The Roman housing market [legal, social, and economic aspects]. Part 3, Roman towns in Italy and the west: J F Drinkwater (49-55), Urbanization in the three Gauls: some observations; Malcolm Todd (56-66), Forum and Capitolium in the early Empire. Part 4: Towns in Roman Britain: Peter Salway (67-73), Geography and the growth of towns, with special reference to Britain; Simon Esmonde Cleary (74-7), The quick and the dead: suburbs, cemeteries, and the town; Philip Crummy (78-85), Colchester: the mechanics of laying out a town; Michael J Jones (86-93), New streets for old: the topography of Roman Lincoln; Dominic Perring (94-8), London in the 1st and early 2nd centuries [study of streets]; Peter Marsden (99-108), London in the 3rd and 4th centuries [changes after Hadrianic fire, ?reduction of trading importance]; Philip Barker (109-17), Aspects of the topography of Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum) [defences not stone?; terminal date 500? survey of med village]. |
