The four quarters were subdivided into square blocks and all structures and open spaces were fitted into these areas or their multiples, as may still be seen at imgad in Algeria, founded c.1oo AD (s.37, s.38). The strict uniformity of this planning was a result and expression of Roman administrative efficiency, while also embodying the equality of all Roman citizens under the emperor. Yet the general effect at Timgad and other cities, notably Pompeii, is of homogeneity rather than monotony. For the public buildings were distributed throughout the city among the viivale dwellings, rather than confined to a single district as had formerly heen 11s11al. The forum was only one, albeit the most imporlant, of several focal points in the urban plan. From each of the gateways in the walls, visitors passed along colonnaded
streets, through triumphal arches and past the entrances to public baths, temples and an amphitheatre or theatre, buildings of different heights creating a varied skyline. But the profusion of Corinthian and Composite columns that gave homogeneity to the urban fabric was also a ubiquitous reminder of Roman rule, especially on the frontiers where such towns were in striking contrast to the settlements of the indigenous population The remains of Pompeii, destroyed in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 reveal the sophistication of a Roman town of the early imperial period (see Surrounded by walls punctuated by twelve towers, the town was laid out on an orthogonal plan with broad streets leading from the gates to the civic centre (5.40). The streets had high pavements on either side and stone blocks at the intersec tions to slow down traffic and enable pedestrians to cross with dry feet. The rectangular forum, which served as administrative, religious and civic centre, was dominated by the Temple of Capitoline Jupiter on its high podium and surrounded by two-story porticos that gave access to shrines, temples and offices as well as to an aisled basilica, which housed lav courts and public meetings, and to a covered market with porticoes and a central fountain. Bathhouses, theatres and palaestrae completed the public buildings of the city. The sophistication of the hydraulic system at Pompeii, begun under Augustus, in which water was piped to private as well as public buildings and fountains rivalled only Rome itself The
standard house type consisted of a range of rooms around an atrium usually open to the sky, but the increasingly crowded conditions at the time of the city's destruction were causing many to be divided up into shops and lodgings, if not demolished altogether to make way for insulae.
The four quarters were subdivided into square blocks and all structures and open spaces were fitted into these areas or their multiples, as may still be seen at imgad in Algeria, founded c.1oo AD (s.37, s.38). The strict uniformity of this planning was a result and expression of Roman administrative efficiency, while also embodying the equality of all Roman citizens under the emperor. Yet the general effect at Timgad and other cities, notably Pompeii, is of homogeneity rather than monotony. For the public buildings were distributed throughout the city among the viivale dwellings, rather than confined to a single district as had formerly heen 11s11al. The forum was only one, albeit the most imporlant, of several focal points in the urban plan. From each of the gateways in the walls, visitors passed along colonnadedstreets, through triumphal arches and past the entrances to public baths, temples and an amphitheatre or theatre, buildings of different heights creating a varied skyline. But the profusion of Corinthian and Composite columns that gave homogeneity to the urban fabric was also a ubiquitous reminder of Roman rule, especially on the frontiers where such towns were in striking contrast to the settlements of the indigenous population The remains of Pompeii, destroyed in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 reveal the sophistication of a Roman town of the early imperial period (see Surrounded by walls punctuated by twelve towers, the town was laid out on an orthogonal plan with broad streets leading from the gates to the civic centre (5.40). The streets had high pavements on either side and stone blocks at the intersec tions to slow down traffic and enable pedestrians to cross with dry feet. The rectangular forum, which served as administrative, religious and civic centre, was dominated by the Temple of Capitoline Jupiter on its high podium and surrounded by two-story porticos that gave access to shrines, temples and offices as well as to an aisled basilica, which housed lav courts and public meetings, and to a covered market with porticoes and a central fountain. Bathhouses, theatres and palaestrae completed the public buildings of the city. The sophistication of the hydraulic system at Pompeii, begun under Augustus, in which water was piped to private as well as public buildings and fountains rivalled only Rome itself Thestandard house type consisted of a range of rooms around an atrium usually open to the sky, but the increasingly crowded conditions at the time of the city's destruction were causing many to be divided up into shops and lodgings, if not demolished altogether to make way for insulae.
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