6.1 Urban Planning
Channel: Discovering Greek & Roman Cities
Date: 2020-04-01

The orthogonal city planning was not uniformly adopted in the Greek and Roman periods. The city of Delos, which was heavily urbanized during the 2nd century BCE is a prime example. In fact, the geomorphology and economy of the city very often defined urban planning decisions. In the case of Delos, broader sustainability concerns such as water and waste management, combined with local geographical parameters and economic priorities, influenced the urban planning decisions governing the development of the city in the Hellenistic period.

This video is part of the MOOC "Discovering Greek & Roman Cities" which was produced by the Strategic Partnership "Ancient Cities", a cooperation between the Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, the University of Aarhus, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athen, the University of Bergen, the Open University of the Netherlands and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. The University of Pennsylvania is an external partner.
The project was co-funded by the ERASMUS+ grant programme of the European Union under grant no. 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003537. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.

The translation into Turkish was produced in cooperation between the German Archaeological Institute Istanbul, the Archaeological Department of Celal Bayar Üniversitesi (Manisa) and the Institute of Classical Studies of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. Coordination: Felix Pirson, Güler Ates, Stefan Feuser. Translations: Burcu Akan, Güler Ateş, Hülya Çatak, Serkan Demir, Mine Özkılıç, Devrim Sönmez, Seçil Tezer Altay.