Work
The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World
Explore in the Atlas →Recasts urban form as cosmogram and ritual.
Cosmos Settlement Ritual
Details
- Type
- Text
- Location
- London
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- ObservationReason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- Cardinal axesAxis mundi
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Cross cultural cosmologicalWestern philosophical
Referenced by
- Joseph Rykwert authored
Sources
- Faber/Goodreads. n.d.. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1373881.The_Idea_of_a_Town.
- Rykwert, Joseph. The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World. Faber & Faber, 1976.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/work-idea-of-a-town/. Accessed July 17, 2026.