Rethinking Ostia
A Spatial Enquiry into the Urban Society of Rome's Imperial Port-Town
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Introduction
1 Research in Ostia
1.1 Hermansen: aspects of city life, building-types and urban formation
1.2 Kockel: public space in transformation
1.3 Heinzelmann: the ‘boomtown model’ and urban shortcomings
1.4 Mar: the formation of urban space
1.5 Further major works in Ostian scholarship: DeLaine, Rieger and Pavolini
2 Roman Urban Studies
2.1 Zanker: The Concept of Townscapes (Stadtbilder)
2.2 Wallace-Hadrill: Houses and Roman Society
2.3 Grahame: Reading Space – a Sally on Domus and Society
2.4 Laurence: Space and Society
2.5 Raper: thesis and its impact
2.6 Kaiser: The Urban Dialogue
2.7 Concluding remarks
3 Space Syntax and Archaeology
3.1 The relationship between society and built environment
3.2 Space Syntax and Structuralism
3.3 Space Syntax’ theoretical framework
3.4 Space Syntax and the city
3.5 Space Syntax in archaeological studies
4 Methodology: Data Capture, Processing and Analysis
4.1 Ostia’s site-plan and the co-ordinate system
4.2 Re-mapping and geo-referencing Insula IV ii
4.3 Structural assessment of Insula IV ii – from wall to wall
4.4 Linking maps to database
4.5 Applied Space Syntax
4.6 Conclusion
5 Insula IV ii – Built Environment and Spatial Assessment
5.1 Insula IV ii – topographical location
5.2 Insula IV ii – built space
5.3 Conclusion
6 The Spatial Organisation of Insula IV ii
6.1 The Insula’s spatial properties
6.2 Physical form and size of space
6.3 Spatial assessment and Space Syntax
6.4 The Insula’s convex or two-dimensional organisation (Access Analysis)
6.5 The Insula’s line structure (axial analysis)
6.6 The Insula’s axial and visual structure
6.7 Conclusion
7 Street Network and Public Places: Movement and Circulation in the City
7.1 The archaeology and streets
7.2 Ostia’ streets in earlier studies
7.3 Temporal or spatial limits imposed on traffic along Ostia’s streets
7.4 The ‘movement economy’ of Ostia’s streets
7.5 Sampling Ostia’s street network
7.6 Syntactical assessment of Ostia’s streets
7.7 Segment analysis along various metric radii
7.8 The visual structure of Ostia’s urban landscape
7.9 Conclusion
8 Scaled Approaches to Urban Space: Ostia’s Guild Seats and the Movement Economy of Roman Cities
8.1 The Guilds and their Buildings: collegia and scholae
8.2 The scholae: architecture and setting
8.3 Scholae architecture – a reading fro maccess maps and spatial values
8.4 The role of specific rooms
8.5 The Guilds and the Movement Economy of Ostia
8.6 Conclusion
9 Conclusion and Directions for Future Research
References
Appendices
List of Figures
List of Tables
Glossary
The Chronology of Imperial Periods
Dutch and Italian Summary
Acknowledgements
Curriculum Vitae
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