Rome and the Colonial City

Sofia Greaves is currently Research Associate at the University of Cambridge after completing her PhD in 2021 as a member of the Impact of the Ancient City project. Her work focuses on classical reception in the nineteenth century, more specifically, how modernists adapted the ancient past as a strategy for renewal. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill OBE FBA, Emeritus Professor and Director of Studies in the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge, formerly Director of the British School at Rome and Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, is Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant project on the Impact of the Ancient City.

Series preface

Acknowledgements

List of figures

List of contributors

 

1. Introduction: Decolonising the Roman grid

Sofia Greaves and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

 

Part I. City planning and Ideals of the city

2. Greek colonies and ideals of equality

Irad Malkin

3. Ancient ideals and modern interpretations

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

4. Urban ideals in the medieval world: spatial order, ruling the realm and the design of towns under Edward I

Keith Lilley

5. The making of men and cities: Francesc Eiximenis and urban development

Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

6. Ancient cities in new worlds: neo-Latin views and Classical ideals in the sixteenth century

Javier Martínez-Jiménez and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

7. Ideals of the city in the early Islamic foundation stories of Kufa and Baghdad

Edward Zychowicz-Coghill

8. The grid enframed: mapping the enframings of the American Grid

Reuben Rose-Redwood

 

Part 2. Roman colonization and urban experimentation

9. The practice of urban settlement in Emilia Romagna: between spontaneous development, master-planning and post-antique adaptation

Alessia Morigi

10. The long-term aspects of urban foundation in the cities of Africa Proconsularis

Andrew Dufton

11. Late antique new cities

Efthymios Rizos

12. Foundational grids and urban communities in the Iberian Peninsula in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Javier Martínez Jiménez

13. Town planning from Falerii to Isurium: understanding and enhancing the archaeological evidence

Martin Millett

 

Part 3. The impact of the Roman urban model

14. From Potentia to Porto Recanati: the Roman coastal colony and its modern legacy

Frank Vermeulen

15. New towns of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries and the grid plan

Wim Boerefijn

16. Re-imagining the grid in the nineteenth century: to be, or not to be Rome

Sofia Greaves

17. Searching for Rome: French colonial archaeology and urban planning in Morocco

Said Ennahid

18. Planning the colonial capital: Khartoum and New Delhi

Robin Cormack

19. Roma rediviva: the uses of Roman heritage in Fascist-era urbanism

Aristotle Kallis

20. Urban planning and ideology: the Fascist layer on Rome’s city centre and the EUR district

Flaminia Bartolini