Book contents
- The Lives of a Roman Neighborhood
- The Lives of a Roman Neighborhood
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Remembering the Meadowlands
- Two Setting Out Lines
- Three Fit for an Emperor
- Four The Long Show Ends
- Five Repurposing Space in the Early Medieval Era, 554–ca. 1000
- Six Filling in the Blanks
- Seven Growth and Decline along a Commercial Corridor, ca. 1347–1555
- Eight Two Rioni in One
- Nine Old Walls Razed, New Walls Built
- Ten Travertine and Stolpersteine
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Nine - Old Walls Razed, New Walls Built
Urban Renewal on the Tiber’s Edge, 1800–1908
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2022
Book contents
- The Lives of a Roman Neighborhood
- The Lives of a Roman Neighborhood
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Remembering the Meadowlands
- Two Setting Out Lines
- Three Fit for an Emperor
- Four The Long Show Ends
- Five Repurposing Space in the Early Medieval Era, 554–ca. 1000
- Six Filling in the Blanks
- Seven Growth and Decline along a Commercial Corridor, ca. 1347–1555
- Eight Two Rioni in One
- Nine Old Walls Razed, New Walls Built
- Ten Travertine and Stolpersteine
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 9 focuses on the erasure of the Ghetto in the late nineteenth century as urban renewal, and in particular flood control, left the district divided in two – one modern and tied to the new road system and one within the lines of the ancient circus porticos.
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- The Lives of a Roman NeighborhoodTracing the Imprint of the Past, from 500 BCE to the Present, pp. 193 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022