The Idea of a Town: the Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine with personal owner name and date in neat ink to front free endpaper; in a near fine price-clipped and faintly sunned and egde-worn jacket. Please see photos. in near fine dust-jacket. Quarto in orange-red illus jacket; 242 pages: illustrations; 26 cm; bibliographical references and index. Printed on high quality coated stock paper. Contents: Town and Rite: Rome and Romulus -- Romulus and Remus -- The Ritual Books -- The New Community -- Planning Techniques: Rational and Irrational -- The Choice of Site -- The Founder and the City -- Recording the Foundation -- City and Site -- How to Choose the Site: -- (i) the Theorists -- (ii) The Rites Observed -- Romulus Again -- Templum -- The Surveyors -- Haruspication -- Mundus -- Orthogonal Planning and the Surveyors -- The First Furrow -- Castrum -- Destruction Rites -- Square and Cross -- The Etruscans -- Terramare -- Marzabotto -- Spina -- Spina and Orghogonal Planning -- Myth and Rite -- The Boundary of the First Rome -- Luperci and Lupercal -- Guardians of Centre, Guardians of Boundaries -- Roma Quadrata -- Vesta -- Boundary and Terminus -- Boundary and Centre: Mundus and Terminus -- Boundary of the Land and Boundary of the People -- Troy: Trojan Horse and Trojan Game -- Mundus and Pomoerium -- Boundary, Strength and Fertility -- The Boundary and the Gate -- The Guardian of the Gate -- The Riddle and the Maze -- Maze, Dance, City -- The Guilty Founder -- The Parallels -- Mandala -- The Mande Rites -- The Bororo rites -- The Sioux -- The Tiwi -- Separation, Guilt and Reconciliation -- The Quartered Body as a Picture of the World -- The Hausa -- the Dogon -- the Everyday Microcosm -- The Great Plan -- The City as a Curable Disease: Ritual and Hysteria -- The First Builders -- The Sign for a Town. / City planning -- History.  Cities and towns, Ancient.  Urbanisme -- Histoire.  Villes antiques.  Social groups & communities.  Cities and towns, Ancient.  City planning.  Planejamento Territorial (Historia)  Cities and towns -- Rome.  City planning -- Rome.  Architecture, Roman.