A dataset of population, area, and infrastructural measures for Roman cities of the Imperial period.
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. 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. 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. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.192 .
See also
Other geographical data:
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