{"product_id":"rome-and-the-colonial-city-sofia-greaves-9781789257809","title":"Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid","description":"According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sofia Greaves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789257808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789257809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxbow Books Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.53h x 6.54w x 1.10d","brand":"Sofia Greaves","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44055686971647,"sku":"9781789257809","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed13e52d-4eea-412d-acb7-01df99eea2cd.jpg?v=1685037203","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rome-and-the-colonial-city-sofia-greaves-9781789257809","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}