Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East

Ross Burns, Adjunct Profressor, Macquarie University, Sydney

Ross Burns is Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney. He graduated in History and Archaeology from Sydney University, 1966 and spent 37 years in the Australian Foreign Service including posts as Ambassador in the Middle East, South Africa and Greece. Since 2003, he hascompleted a PhD at Macquarie University in Sydney (2009) and authored several books on the history of Syria- Monuments of Syria (1992, 1999, 2009), Damascus, A History (2005), Aleppo, A History (2016).

Introduction
PART A - ARCHITECTURAL TRADITIONS
1. The Hellenistic city in the Eastern context
2. Alexandria-'View Planning' Embraces the City
3. Greek and Roman Precedents in the Early Empire
4. Framework for the Development of Cities in the Early Years of the Roman presence
PART B-EVOLUTION OF THE COLONNADED AXIS
5. Provincial Cities in the Early Empire
6. Urban Development in Practice-Client Kings
7. Urban Development in Practice-Province of Syria
8. Urban Development in Practice-Asia Minor and North Africa
9. The New Environment of the Early Second Century
10. The Colonnaded Axis Reaches its Peak
11. Antonines and Severans-End of User Pays?
12. A Singular Experiment
Conclusion-Seeing the City as a Whole
Appendix 1-Results of the American-French Excavations in Antioch
Appendix 2-Table of Roman-era Cities and Colonnaded Streets Discussed