The City of Rome

Here on this web page you will find:

• More images, and...

• Video worksheet (incl. links)

• A wide selection of external links (maps, images and general info)

• Some links to urban theory materials on-line

Maps, images and general 'Rome' pages

• Chronology of building projects in Rome during Augustus' Principate. This is invaluable as a quick reference guide, and is clearly presented.

• A ‘virtual’ tour of Rome
  Plan de Rome – another ‘virtual’ tour, this time courtesy of the Université de Caen and based on Paul Bigot’s 19^th century model. The text is in French, but is well-worth having a go at (if you have any understanding of the language); the images and reconstructions in the ‘Virtuel’ section are fascinating.

• Trajan’s Column : some impressive (and very detailed) images.
• Platner & Ashby’s A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (London 1929) : courtesy of Perseus
• Augustus: Images of Power – an excellent site, which provides images and text on the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Ara Pacis, and the Gemma Augustea.
• Theatrum Pompei Project is a site dedicated to Pompey, and takes in lots of useful info / images of his (impact on) the city

• Grove Dictionary of Art: Rome – the text is not particularly exciting or detailed, but there are some nice images to be found. Unfortunately the pages are very slow-loading, so you'll need to be patient with it...

• Roman Fora : ‘official’ web site – a slick site with a virtual tour of the fora, web cams,  information on the excavations (and a must-see ‘Welcome’ from the Mayor of Rome).

• Roman Art and Architecture : self explanatory. Images grouped by genre (painting, sculpture, architecture), period and location.
• The Forum Romanum – a site that was developed by students, for a web competition. The section on the forum has a useful click-able map, and you may find other things of interest too.
• Maecenas – lots of images.

• Victorianized Romans: Images of Rome in Victorian Painting (from Brown University)

• Maps of Rome – just what it says.
• Interactive map of Rome – useful for gaining a broad overview of where everything is.
• A compendium of cartographic resources on Rome, many are not particularly useful, but it’s interesting to see what’s out there!
• Another 'maps' portmanteau site (Roman Archaeology: Forum and Palatine), which also has some nice photos of Rome now, of ruined buildings, and some (though not enough, I think) 'imaginative' reconstructions.
• Restoring an ancient map of Rome…
• The modern city and another version of the city today
• An attractive and easy to use site providing among other things, a reconstruction of the Forum Romanum

Urban theory on-line

• Radical Urban Theory: a highly individual (and rather polemic) webzine
• Links to Urban Studies pages (U.S.) provided by Brown University
• Homepage of The Institute for Citizenship - rather light on content, but the (pdf format) report is interesting
• Annotated bibliographies on citizenship (University of Toronto)

Images

The Roman Forum