Rome from the ground up /

• Main Author: McGregor, James H. (James Harvey), 1946- (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006
• Subjects: Πολεοδομικός σχεδιασμός > Ιταλία > Ρώμη > Ιστορία; Ρώμη (Ιταλία) > Περιγραφή και ταξίδια; Ρώμη (Ιταλία) > Ιστορία

Review: "Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, this book conjures all these cities, past and present, conducting the reader through time and space to the complex and shifting realities - architectural, historical, political, and social - that constitute Rome.&q...

Table of Contents:

• Tiber Island and the ancient port
• The Roman forum
• The imperial city
• Early Christian churches
• Vatican revival
• Renaissance in the river bend
• Baroque expansion
• The survival of history.