TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rogers,Adam
TI  - Water and Roman urbanism: towns, waterscapes, land transformation and experience in Roman Britain 
T2  - Mnemosyne supplements : history and archaeology of classical antiquity
SN  - 9789004249752
AV  - DA145 .R734 2013
U1  - 714.09362/09015 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Cities and towns, Ancient
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - City and town life
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - City planning
KW  - Water use
KW  - Water
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Water and architecture
KW  - Landscape changes
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Landscape
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Roman influences
KW  - Antiquities, Roman
KW  - Geography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Introduction -- Five Urban Waterscapes -- Rivers, Lakes and Islands: Towns, Changing Waterscapes and Geography -- Waterfronts: The Land/Water Interface and the Construction of Waterfront Installations -- Wetlands: The Materiality of Land Drainage and Reclamation in Towns -- Conclusions: Towns, Water and Places -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the meanings attributed to these places. Rather than a descriptive approach to the urban fabric it emphasises social context and cultural meaning through interpretative frameworks of analysis. Central are the cultural and experiential implications of water forming part of towns, rather than economic and practical arguments, and the way in which these places were used and altered over time. The book emphasises a social approach and has considerable implications for our understanding of life in the Roman period as a whole
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004249752
ER  -