Perspectives on public space in Rome, from antiquity to the present day (Ashgate, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Omnis caesareo cedit labor amphitheatro, unum pro cuntis fama loquetur opus (mart., 1, 7-8) : has the center of ancient Rome been shifting? / Royo Manuel -- Emperors, baths, and public space : the imperial thermae in Rome's late antique landscape / DeForest Dallas -- Shortcuts : observations on the formation of the medieval streets system in Rome / Gadeyne Jan -- Frangipane and Pierleoni territories in the era of the antipopes (1050-1150) / Yawn Lila -- La Loggia delle Benedizioni at St.peter's in the Quattrocento and the visualization of power / Jimborean Ioana -- Marcantonio Colonna and the victory at Lepanto : the framing of a public space at Santa Maria in Aracoeli / Anderson Paul -- SPQR capitolivm restitvit : the renovatio of the Campidoglio and Michelangelo's use of the giant order / Smithers Tamara -- From cattle market to public promenade : remaking the Forum in the seventeenth century / Cloud Jasmine -- Performance and politics in the urban spaces of Baroque Rome / Norman Joanna -- Public space as desire, dream and history : Freud and Rome / DiCori Paola -- Political public space in Rome from 1870 to 2011 / Vidotto Vittorio -- Narrating place : perspectives on Pier Paolo Pasolini's Rome / Smith Gregory -- The shape of public space : place, space, and junk space / Mayernik David -- Contemporary debates on public space in Rome / Cremaschi Marco
Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary) 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. Through this long-term chronological approach the volume offers a truly unique insight into the urban development of on