Rethinking Approaches for the Study of Urban Movement at Ostia

• Autores: Katherine A. Crawford
• Localización: Finding the Limits of the Limes: Modelling Demography, Economy and Transport on the Edge of the Roman Empire / coord. por Philip Verhagen, Jamie Joyce, Mark R Groenhuijzen, 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-04576-0, págs. 313-327
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Despite a range of existing approaches for examining movement within ancient cities, the study of movement intent has received limited attention. This paper begins to address this gap by considering how pedestrian movement can be studied at Ostia, Rome’s ancient port, by transitioning focus to what structured movement routes, namely the built environment and social activity. Using the UNA (Urban Network Analysis) Toolbox developed for ArcGIS, betweeness centrality is calculated in relation to different types of buildings. The results, when associated with Ostia’s streets, provide a visualization of potential areas of movement specific to certain social activities that occurred within the urban landscape. This provides a novel methodological approach for assessing different forms of directed movement within ancient urban landscapes.