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Field survey has been making a major contribution to our understanding of the rural landscapes of the Mediterranean for nearly forty years. During that time the techniques used to map ancient settlement patterns have grown in sophistication from being a process of simply identifying sites in the landscape, to one which provided nuanced understandings of their layouts, chronologies and contexts. This has led to a revolution in how archaeologists approach urban sites, with survey techniques being used increasingly often to generate a plan of a town site prior to excavation as a way of ensuring that the excavation can be used to address site-specific questions in a way that had not been possible before. Most recently, research has begun to reveal the advantages of integrating a range of different non-destructive techniques on urban sites. In combination with exciting new computer-based means of data visualization, all of this work means that it is now possible to virtually reconstruct a buried town within a relatively short space of time, as opposed to the old and destructive excavation-centered approach that could take generations. Unsurprisingly these advances are starting to make a very important understanding to urbanism in general and the Roman Empire in particular. Urban Landscape Survey in Italy and the Mediterranean builds upon all these new developments and is one of the first publications to focus exclusively upon the contribution of survey techniques to our understanding of ancient towns. It addresses methodology led enquiry into the nature of urban settlements primarily in Italy, but also in Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Portugal and Spain. The twenty-two papers from leading specialists in the field focus on two underlying themes. The first deals with the characterization of urban sites and draws upon a wide range of case studies. These range from key protohistoric centres in central and south Italy, to towns that epitomise the contradictions of cultural change under Rome, such as Paestum, Aquinum and Sagalassos, to Roman centres such as Teano, Suasa and Ammaia. The second theme is inter-urban relationships, looking in particular at wider urbanized landscapes in Italy. The fascinating selection of recent and on-going projects presented here significantly moves the limits of our current knowledge about ancient towns

Longtemps chasse gardée des anthropologues, la culture est devenue le terrain de prédilection des chercheurs en sciences humaines et des consultants en management. Dans l'abondante littérature, on distingue les auteurs qui conçoivent la culture d'entreprise comme un sous-ensemble de mythes et de rites, tourné vers l'intérieur, tandis que d'autres perçoivent l'entreprise comme étant une culture et parlent d'identité ou d'image tournée vers l'extérieur. Les dirigeants mettent l'accent sur une « culture d'entreprise en action », fruit d'une combinatoire quasi-infinie d'éléments liés à son histoire, à ses activités, à ses métiers, à ses technologies, à ses produits et à services, à ses valeurs, à la personnalité de ses dirigeants… Éléments qui se traduisent dans les comportements individuels et collectifs au travail. Face au paradoxe du changement, la « gestion par la culture » peut servir de levier pour créer un cercle vertueux conduisant de l'engagement du personnel à la performance de l'entreprise. Mais on ne peut sans doute vraiment parler de la culture d'entreprise que de l'intérieur de celle-ci. Or, une communauté sereine et sûre d'elle refuse l'investigation, s'y dérobe ou au contraire l'ignore. La culture est donc d'autant plus visible que l'entreprise est en péril, condamnée à disparaître ou à s'adapter aux évolutions de son environnement. Sinon elle est aussi présente et invisible que l'air que l'on respire.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part I Introducing the Themes -- 1 Introduction: Space, Movement and the Economy in Roman Cities -- Ancient Views -- Modern Debates -- Urban Space and Economies -- Notes -- References -- 2 Economic Space and Movement Between Roman Towns, Their suburbia and Territories: The Regional Perspective -- Introduction -- A Regionally Based Landscape Approach -- The Urban System of Central Adriatic Italy -- Movement and Connectivity in Suburbium and Countryside -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Spaces -- 3 Beyond Pompeii and Ostia: Commerce and Urban Space in Roman Italy -- Introduction -- Pompeii: Building Tabernae in a Large Roman City -- Ostia: Commercial Investment in the Shadow of Rome -- (1) Cities Where the Taberna Was a Marginal Phenomenon -- (2) Cities Where the Taberna Was Widespread But Investment remained Modest in Nature -- (3) Cities Where Tabernae Were Constructed in Larger Numbers -- (4) Cities With Large-Scale Commercial Investment -- Urban Commercial Landscapes in Roman Italy -- Comparing Urban Commercial Landscapes: Towards a Historical Framework -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Market Buildings in Asia Minor: Old Assumptions and New Starting Points -- Introduction -- Commercial Buildings? Reviewing the Literature -- Lauter -- Machatschek and Schwarz -- Köse -- Cavalier -- The Problems -- Definition -- The Meaning of Buildings -- New Avenues For Research -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Do Economic Activities Impinge On Roman Urban Matrices in Asia Minor? A New Style/function Debate -- Setting the Scene -- Urbanism in Asia Minor -- Case Study: Ancient Sagalassos -- The Urban Framework -- The Townsfolk -- Meanwhile in the Countryside.

"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.

The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. Additionally, the opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led to methodologically innovative experiments. One of today's major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation—that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale.

Mapping Landscapes in Transformation gathers experts from different disciplines, active in the fields of historical geography, urban and landscape history, archaeology and heritage conservation. They are specialised in a wide variety of space-time contexts, including regions within Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and periods from antiquity to the 21st century."