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Roman cities

Description

A dataset of population, area, and infrastructural measures for Roman cities of the Imperial period.

Usage

cities

Format

A data.frame with 125 observations (Roman cities) and 8 variables:

name

character: site Name.

area

integer: site area, in hectares.

population

integer: population estimate, following the methodology in Hanson and Ortman (2017).

forum_area

integer: total area of all fora/agorae in the site, in square meters.

street_area

integer: total area of streets in the site, in square meters.

street_length

integer: total length of streets in the site, in meters.

street_width

integer: average width of streets, in square meters.

block_area

integer: average area of a block, in square meters.

Source

Hanson, J. & Ortman, S. (2019). Population, area, and infrastructural measures for Roman cities of the Imperial period. tDAR. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.6067/XCV8448563")}.

References

Hanson J. W. & Ortman S. G. (2017). A systematic method for estimating the populations of Greek and Roman settlements. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 30: 301-324. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1017/S1047759400074134")}.

Hanson J. W., Ortman S. G., Bettencourt L. M. A. & Mazur L. C. (2019). Urban form, infrastructure and spatial organisation in the Roman Empire. Antiquity, 93(369): 702-718. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.15184/aqy.2018.192")}.

See Also

Other geographical data: inrap

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