The traffic systems of Pompeii / Eric E. Poehler

Author:: Poehler, Eric
Published:: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Modern Scholarship -- The New Myths of Ancient Traffic -- The Street Surface and Rut Creation -- Vehicles, Laws, and Attitudes -- Control of Urban Streets -- The Shape of the Book -- 2.The Development of Pompeii's Urban Street Network -- A Brief History of the Current Model -- Archaic Pompeii -- Hiatus -- Refoundation: Pompeii's Fourth-Century-Bce Master Plan -- Formal Analyses of the Master Plan -- Excavation of the Neustadt -- Changes to the Master Plan -- Colonia Veneria Cornelia Pompeii -- The Augustan Floruit -- Post-Earthquake(s) Period -- 3.Surfaces of the Street -- Beaten Ash Surfaces -- Cobbled Surfaces -- Lava Stone Surfaces -- Debris Streets -- Street Surfaces as Social Capital -- 4.Architecture of the Street -- Paving Stones -- Curbstones -- Stepping Stones -- Guard Stones -- Summary -- 5.Evidence of Traffic -- Vehicles -- Ruts -- Directionality -- Overriding Wear -- Sliding Wear -- Cyclical Wearing -- On Certainty -- 6.The Traffic Systems of Pompeii -- Consequences of the Grid: City Shapes and Evidence Production -- Continuous and Discontinuous Street Networks -- Corner Shape -- Direct Evidence For the Systems of Traffic: Two-Way Streets -- Direct Evidence For the Systems of Traffic: One-Way Streets -- The Evolution of the Traffic Systems -- The Late Republican and Augustan Eras -- Post-Earthquake(s) Detours -- Summary -- 7.World of the Mulio -- Excursus 1 The Stable -- Digressus 1 -- Drivers -- The Driver and Society -- Excursus 2 The Detour -- Digressus 2 -- Municipal Control of Street Paving -- Driving in Theory -- Reading the Rules -- Excursus 3 One Master a Day -- Digressus 3 -- 8.Traffic in the Roman World -- Traffic and the Roman City -- Two-Way Streets -- One-Way Streets -- Pompeii and Timgad -- A Brief History of Traffic Management -- The Early Republic -- The Middle and Late Republic -- The Age of Augustus -- The Early Empire -- The High Empire -- Conclusion -- 9.Conclusion.

Summary:

'The Traffic Systems of Pompeii' is the first sustained examination of the development of the road infrastructure in Pompeii - from the archaic age to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE - and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire.

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9780190614690 (ebook)

Audience Notes:

Specialized.

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Previously issued in print: 2017.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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