Peter De Graaf: Roman Gentrification, Gebunden

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Roman Gentrification describes the transformation process of town and country from a pre-Roman context (Etruscan, Latin, Oscan, Greek and Celtic) to the Early Imperial period. This book uses gentrification concepts as a heuristic device to analyze urban socio-economic changes. After describing the most important gentrification theories, these concepts are applied to the Roman towns on the Italian peninsula, using an explanatory model that helps to filter the evidence and provides a special lens for looking at structures and changes in town and country. The Augustan regions discussed are Etruria, Latium (excluding Rome), Campania, Magna Graecia, and the provinces that make up the north of the Italian peninsula.

The book's textual and archaeological evidence focuses on the five main elements of Roman gentrification: the presence of a sizeable group of affluent people; a functioning property market; a shift in employment and diversification of professions; a professionalization of trades and crafts; and the locational preferences of the elite, their dependents, and their investment in domestic and public architecture, public display and forms of entertainment.

Special attention is given to describe the typical Late Republican and Early Imperial Roman town in relation to the towns of the Archaic and Classical Greek heartland: its physical dimensions; the size and distribution of its population over town and country; and identifying the main occupations of the urban population.