URSI 110--The City

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Rome

Key Ideas:

• Empire
• SPQR (Senatus PubliusQue Romani)
• Castrum
• Infrastructure & engineering
• Keystone Arch (“Roman arch”)
• Aqueduct & waterworks
• Atrium house

Context

• “Mare nostrum” (Our sea)
• The Caesars
• Castrum (Military camp)

City Form

• Orthogonal Planning
• Town Plan
• Timgad, Algeria
• Building the City
• City Block (insula)

Transportation

• Highways (Viae) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Streets (Vicus)
• Ports

Public Buildings

• Keystone arch 1, 2, 3
• Forum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Theaters/coliseums 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Temples 1, 2, 3, 4
• Pantheon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• “Rome Reborn”

Commercial/Industrial

• Market 1, 2
• Factory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Tavern
• Potteryworks

Residential/Daily Life

• Waterworks
• Aqueduct 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Water pump 1, 2
• Castellum, valves, & pipes
• Fountains
• Latrines 1, 2
• Sewers
• Baths (thermae) 1, 2, 3, 4
• House 1, 2
• Villa 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Apartments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Art & Decoration
• Murals 1, 2, 3
• Glassware
• Daily life
• Cooking 1, 2
• Piggy bank
• Weights & measures
• bathing

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© 2006 A.J.Filipovitch
Revised 15 October 10