![]() The findings provided have the potential to produce rich insights on the dynamics of urban and economic growth across time and geographies, thereby opening the door for new and further studies. The ultimate goal is to determine if the patterns of urban expansion identified in modern cities also existed in ancient Rome. By reexamining the available archaeological and textual evidence pertaining to land use change on Rome's eastern periphery this article demonstrates how the frameworks selected can be successfully appropriated via a narration of Rome's urban transformations from the mid-Republic to the later Imperial period. While the growth of ancient settlements is often difficult to track and analyze, archaeologically observable changes in land use can be read and interpreted as a function of broader economic oscillations over the longue durée. This article investigates the urban expansion and economic development of ancient Rome through the application of models and theories originally designed for the study of contemporary cities. When he dedicated this house, that had been completed in this manner, he approved of it only so much as to say that he could finally begin to live like a human being. There were baths, flowing with seawater and with the sulfur springs of the Albula. The main hall of the dining rooms was round, and it would turn constantly day and night like the Heavens. In other parts of the house, everything was covered in gold and adorned with jewels and mother of pearl dining rooms with fretted ceilings whose ivory panels could be turned so that flowers or perfumes from pipes were sprinkled down from above. It took the place of the Domus Transitoria (q.v. A house whose size and elegance these details should be sufficient to relate: its courtyard was so large that a 120 foot colossal statue of the emperor himself stood there it was so spacious that it had a mile-long triple portico also there was a pool of water like a sea, that was surrounded by buildings which gave it the appearance of cities and besides that, various rural tracts of land with vineyards, cornfields, pastures, and forests, teeming with every kind of animal both wild and domesticated. From Platner & Ashby’s (1929) Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Domus Aurea: a huge palace built by Nero after the fire of 64 A.D. Despite the rumours, Nero wasn’t actually in Rome when the fire started and rushed. Rumours at the time blamed Nero for starting the fire because he profited from the fire, confiscating public land in the centre of the city. In no other matter did he act more wasteful than in building a house that stretched from the Palatine to the Esquiline Hill, which he originally named "Transitorium" (House of Passages), but when soon afterwards it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt he called it Aurea (Golden House). The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was a huge pleasure palace built by the emperor Nero after the great fire of 64AD.
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