Throughout the twentieth century, considerable research has been dedicated to understanding the rise, development and end of ancient cities. In recent years, there has been a remarkable upsurge of new methodological and theoretical approaches applied in urbanism studies, which enables us to improve, validate or question our knowledge about ancient urban life. The three books reviewed here concern the development, transformation and experience of ancient Roman cities; leading experts in urban history and archaeology discussing the potential of new technologies and conceptual frameworks for analysing Roman urban space.

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老城，新路：意大利罗马城市主义之路

在整个 20 世纪，人们投入了大量研究来了解古城的兴起、发展和终结。近年来，城市主义研究中应用的新方法论和理论方法出现了显着的热潮，这使我们能够改进、验证或质疑我们对古代城市生活的了解。这里回顾的三本书涉及古罗马城市的发展、转型和经验;城市历史和考古学的领先专家讨论了分析罗马城市空间的新技术和概念框架的潜力。