A Comparative Study Of The Urban Layout Of The Roman City Of The Empire And Han Chang'an City

Urban history research is a new frontier discipline,the main research origin,development and evolvement of the city and all kinds of problems in the process,has appeared numerous disciplines of associated with it,including the relationship between the historical urban geography and urban history more closely.Historical urban geography is the study led to the origin,development and evolution of the city geography foundation discipline,studies pay more attention to the modern historical process of the formation of the cities,from ordinate,the continuity of time on the history of the modern law of development and characteristics of cities in geographical space.At present,our countryis in the social transition period,the speed of accelerating the development of the city,at the same time there are some problems,therefore,has important academic value and practical significance to study the layout and planning of city construction.Empire of Rome city and Chang'an city in the Han Dynasty is the same period of the world's great city building,the layout of the city in the two city study comparing similarities and differences,each city's unique characteristics and causes,canprovide important reference value for our country,after the city planning and construction.Based on this,this paper adopts the basic methods of combination of history,using historical and archaeological materials,discusses the specific layout and characteristics of Chang'an city in the Han Dynasty and the imperial city of Rome City area,and through the comparison shows the similarities and differences of two city.In addition to the comparative research method,sociological method is also essential,the city does not exist in isolation,as an important part of ancient civilization,which are the reasons and significance of the specific internal relations,so with the sociological analysis method of city and politics,economy and culture,will contribute to our internal mechanism the layout of the city have more in-depth understanding.The full text includes four parts:introduction,text,conclusion and references.The main body is divided into three chapters.The first part is introduction.First introduces the background and significance of the topic,reveals the important value of research work on city planning and construction in China after the day,and the present research status and achievements on Han Chang'an city and Rome city were briefly reviewed,finally explains the innovation of this research is insufficient in the.The second part is the main body,which is divided into three chapters.The first chapter mainly discusses the Empire of the city of Rome city function area layout,this chapter will empire of Rome city function is divided into five parts,which are the political and military public space,living space,living space,commercial space,religious worship and burial in space.Through the restoration of each specific functional area,the basic appearance of the city layout of Rome during the imperial period was restored.The second chapter mainly discusses the layout of Han Chang'an City area,this chapter will function in the Han Chang'an city and Rome City correspondence,is divided into five parts,which are the political and military public space,living space,living space,commercial space,religious worship and suburb burial space.Through the restoration of each specific functional area,the basic features of the layout of the Han Chang'an city were restored.The third chapter,the specific research results and conclusions of the first two chapters of the restoration and utilization,in this chapter will be between the two city each layout space were studied,using the form of visual comparison,obtained two city from different city background,city function,planning theory,Rome city is from the old city based on the extension from before,the lack of overall grasp of the city,so the city layout is scattered,the lack of a clear division of city function;Rome city is more reflected in the city's commercial functions and secular life,commercial prosperity is an important symbol of the city of Rome.While the Chinese city of Chang'an is the capital of a new empire,from planning to construction have a clear plan of building thought as guidance,so the new Chang'an city layout is clear,city function is clear;Han Chang'an city and Rome city of Chang'an,and more is reflected in the political function of the city,especially the emperor the authority and domination,embodies the essence of autocratic centralization.Chang'an and Rome,although there are differences,but as the capital of the two Reich exists inevitably in many aspects has many similarities,the two city has the basic layout of the city,such as the palace area,residential area,commercial area and so on;developed the road traffic system and excellent wall military defense systems.At the same time,the two cities also have some of the same problems,such as the rapid urbanization process.The third part is the conclusion.The main is a summary of the paper,through a comparative study of two city,two city in the show between stages within the same differences and reasons,points out the different cultural background,ecological environment and political system and ideology is the result of two city difference reason.