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Books on the topic "Toorak (Vic ) History"
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McConville, Chris. St Kevin's College: 1918-1993. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1993.
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Gorn, Elliott J., and Allison Lauterbach. The Voice of Los Angeles. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037610.003.0009.
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This chapter pays homage to Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, who has provided the team's play-by-play for more than six decades years, with “elegance and ease and seeming effortlessness.” Born in 1927, Vincent Edward Scully grew up in the Bronx listening to sportscasters on the radio. He took up broadcasting while a student at Fordham University. Scully joined the Dodgers at spring training in Vero Beach, Florida, in March 1950. More than sixty years later, he is still with the team, the longest tenured announcer in American sports history. With a strong sense of perspective—of history—Scully emphasizes to listeners that baseball is a special little world, fascinating to be sure, but not to be overvalued. This chapter first provides a background on Scully's career in radio broadcasting before considering him from different generational perspectives. It argues that Scully “is more than just a well-loved sportscaster. He is the voice of L.A.” Angelenos' sense of civic identity resonates with that voice.
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Formisano, Ronald P. Populist Currents in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036606.003.0009.
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This chapter highlights the populist strains in the 2008 campaigns and connects them to the nation's long history of politics “for the people.” When “Joe the Plumber” heckled Obama in Toledo, when Clinton hoisted a brew at a bar in Indiana, when Palin proudly introduced herself to the nation as a “hockey mom,” they were participating in a tradition of populist electoral appeals that can be traced back to the Whig Party's “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” campaign of 1840. Though populist campaigning took a digital turn in 2008 with the emergence of campaigning via interactive digital communications technologies, this chapter concludes that, as in the past, the populist rhetoric of the 2008 campaigns often had very little to do with policies that promoted the greatest good for the greatest number.
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Wiedenmann, Robert N., and J. Ray Fisher. The Silken Thread. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197555583.001.0001.
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Insects are seldom mentioned in history texts, yet they significantly shaped human history. The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History tells the stories of just five insects, tied together by a thread originating in the Silk Roads of Asia, and how they have impacted our world. Silkworms have been farmed to produce silk for millennia, creating a history of empires and cultural exchanges; Silk Roads connected East to West, generating trade centers and transferring ideas, philosophies, and religions. The western honey bee feeds countless people, and their crop pollination is worth billions of dollars. Fleas and lice carried bacteria that caused three major plague pandemics, moved along the Silk Roads from Central Asia. Bacteria carried by insects left their ancient clues as DNA embedded in victims’ teeth. Lice caused outbreaks of typhus, especially in crowded conditions such as prisons and concentration camps. Typhus aggravated the effects of the Irish potato famine, and Irish refugees took typhus to North America. Yellow fever was transported to the Americas via the trans-Atlantic slave trade, taking and devaluing the lives of millions of Africans. Slaves were brought to the Americas to reduce labor costs in the cultivation of sugarcane, which was itself transported from south Asia along the Silk Roads. Yellow fever caused panic in the United States in the 1700s and 1800s as the virus and its mosquito vector was moved from the Caribbean. Constructing the Panama Canal required defeating mosquitoes that transmitted yellow fever. The silken thread runs through and ties together these five insects and their impacts on human history.
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Parsons, Anne E. From Asylum to Prison. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640631.001.0001.
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To many, insane asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in mental hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as this book reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex as the government shifted to a more punitive, institutional approach to social deviance, mental illness, and people with disabilities. Focusing on Pennsylvania, the state that ran one of the largest mental health systems in the country, the author tracks how the lack of community-based services, a fear-based politics around mental illness, and the economics of institutions meant that closing mental hospitals fed a cycle of incarceration that became an epidemic. This groundbreaking book recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as the book charts how the history of asylums and prisons were inextricably intertwined. It argues that the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and social welfare policy, and vice versa. The book offers critical insight into how the prison took the place of the asylum and shaped the rise of the prison industrial complex and creating new forms of social marginality.
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Hutton, Clare. Serial Encounters. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744078.001.0001.
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James Joyce’s Ulysses was first published in New York in the Little Review between 1918 and 1920. What kind of reception did it have and how does the serial version of the text differ from the version most readers know, the iconic volume edition published in Paris in 1922 by Shakespeare and Company? Joyce prepared much of Ulysses for serial publication while resident in Zurich between 1915 and 1919. This original study, which is based on sustained archival research, goes behind the scenes in Zurich and New York to recover long-forgotten facts pertinent to the writing, reception, and interpretation of Ulysses. The Little Review serialization of Ulysses proved controversial from the outset and was ultimately stopped before Joyce had completed the work. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice took successful legal action against the journal’s editors, on the grounds that the final instalment of the thirteenth chapter of Ulysses was obscene. This triumph of the social purity movement had far-reaching repercussions for Joyce’s subsequent publishing history, and for his ongoing efforts in composing Ulysses. After chapters of contextual literary history, the study moves on to consider the textual significance of the serialization. It breaks new ground in Joycean scholarship by paying critical attention to Ulysses as a serial text. It concludes by examining the myriad ways in which Joyce revised and augmented Ulysses while resident in Paris, showing how Joyce made Ulysses more sexually suggestive and overt in explicit response to its legal reception in New York.
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Linarelli, John, Margot E. Salomon, and Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah. International Trade. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753957.003.0004.
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Despite significant attention in recent times, the law of international trade has been remarkably resilient in steering clear of compliance with the demands of justice. The history of the law governing international trade is rooted in forms of coercion and violence designed to promote the interests of powerful states and their multinational enterprises. The first norm of international trade law for the modern state, the principle of freedom to trade, was a rationalization to commit atrocities, including genocide, to promote the interests of European powers and their commercial interests. This problematic history of the law of international trade led governments to promote the wrong values in international trade relations between states. The chapter then examines the international trade order put in place when treaties and positive law became more important and industrial forms of capitalism became ascendant, based on notions of promised-based commitment, providing states with a rationale to ignore notions of justice, disparities in bargaining power, global inequality, and other values. With such norms in effect still today, power is permissibly exercised via a transactional model between states. In this model, trade treaties are all about bargaining. A national or mercantilist conception of market took absolute priority, a conception in which markets are divided up according to power imposed in bargaining. The chapter explains how the contemporary trade treaty suffers from various pathologies because of these historical rationalities imposed on it from these prior eras. The result is a failure of contemporary trade agreements to comply with principles of justice and relatively little concern expressed about this failure.
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Champion, Jared N., and Peter C. Kunze, eds. Taking a Stand. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496835482.001.0001.
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Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory took time away from the stage to speak alongside Martin Luther King Jr. , and—more recently—Tig Notaro challenged popular notions of damaged or abject bodies. Stand-up comedians deploy humor to open up difficult topics for broader examination, which only underscores the social and cultural importance of their work. Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals draws together essays that contribute to the analysis of the stand-up comedian as public intellectual since the 1980s. The chapters explore stand-up comedians as contributors to and shapers of public discourse via their live performances, podcasts, social media presence, and political activism. Each chapter highlights a stand-up comedian and their ongoing discussion of a cultural issue or expression of a political ideology/standpoint: Lisa Lampanelli’s use of problematic postracial humor, Aziz Ansari’s merging of sociology and technology, or Maria Bamford’s emphasis on mental health, to name just a few. Taking a Stand offers a starting point for understanding the work stand-up comedians do as well as its reach beyond the stage. Comedians influence discourse, perspectives, even public policy on myriad issues, and this book sets out to take those jokes seriously.
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Webster, Wendy. Mixing It. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198735762.001.0001.
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During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners of war—chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became more diverse than it had ever been before. Through diaries, letters, and interviews, Mixing It tells of ordinary lives which in wartime conditions were often extraordinary. Among the stories featured are those of Zbigniew Siemaszko and ‘Johnny’ Pohe. Siemaszko’s epic journey to Britain began on a horse-drawn sleigh, in a village in Kazakhstan to which he had been deported by the Soviet Union, eventually taking him to the Polish army in Scotland via Iran, Iraq, and South Africa. Pohe, from New Zealand, was the first Maori pilot to serve in the RAF. He was captured after he had to ditch his plane, took part in what was subsequently called the ‘Great Escape’, and was one of fifty escapees who were recaptured and murdered by the Gestapo. This is the first book to look at the big picture of large-scale movements to Britain and the rich variety of relations between different groups. When the war ended, awareness of the diversity of Britain’s wartime population was lost and has played little part in public memories of the war. Mixing It recovers this forgotten history. It illuminates the place of the Second World War in the making of multinational, multiethnic Britain and resonates with current debates on immigration.
Book chapters on the topic "Toorak (Vic ) History"
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Tagliacozzo, Eric. "Capitalism’s Missing Link." In Capitalisms, 180–200. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199499717.003.0007.
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Why has Southeast Asia often been left out of histories of how capitalism conquered the world? I answer this question in three parts: the first focuses on the evolution of territory vis-à-vis economic history in this part of the world. I argue that Western notions of territorial control took root slowly in Southeast Asia and in a piecemeal fashion, affecting the ways that capitalism could ultimately form. The second examines the nature of the commercially interested state itself, as state formation took place across the breadth of Southeast Asia. I argue that the nature of state formation also changed during this era vis-à-vis economic history in interesting ways. Finally, the third part has to do with the nature of the economic stimuli causing these processes (including capitalism), its various frequencies, and its provenances. I propose that more of these energies were Asian and local than have previously been supposed.
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Sossai, Mirko. "Catholicism and the Evolution of International Law Studies in Italy." In A History of International Law in Italy, 215–33. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842934.003.0009.
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Although there has been no Christian doctrine of international law in Italy, Catholicism still represented a source of inspiration for various scholars during the twentieth century when addressing the question of the foundations of international law. In a period of predominant positivism, alternative approaches, rooted in the universalistic view of the Catholic Church, sought to offer a narrative of the origins of international law, based on the idea of continuity with the ancient civitas christiana. This chapter seeks to assess how the scholarly debate took into account developments in the Catholic understanding of the role of law in the international community. Three key episodes are considered: the note of Pope Benedict XV qualifying the great war as ‘useless slaughter’; the ambivalent reaction of the Holy See to the birth of universal organizations; and the position of the Papacy vis-à-vis the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Richter, Hedwig, and Ralph Jessen. "Elections, Plebiscites, and Festivals." In The Oxford History of the Third Reich, 82–111. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192886835.003.0004.
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Abstract The continuing need for the relationship between ‘the Führer’ and ‘the movement’ to be actively experienced was of decisive importance for the legitimation of this charismatic regime. Like the elections, the ceremonies served to demonstrate the apparently ‘democratic’ nature of the regime. Elections and festivals maintained the fiction of a mass movement, even if this had become frozen in rigid rituals. At the same time, they contained the movement’s latent dynamic. Hitler’s and Goebbels’s success in launching an unprecedented wave of terror against German Jews with such ease on 9 November 1938 had, among other things, to do with the fact that it took place on the day the party had devoted to the memory of the ‘time of struggle’ and ‘the fallen heroes’. And the growing self-confidence of the regime vis-à-vis foreign countries and its own population during the 1930s was, not least, a consequence of the elections and plebiscites, those demonstrative rituals of assent and exclusion that appeared to clarify the views of the masses—and the powerlessness of the opposition.
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Schäfer, Peter. "From the Human Enoch to the Lesser God Metatron." In Two Gods in Heaven, 99–133. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691181325.003.0013.
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This chapter focuses on Judaism that has a long tradition history of the antediluvian patriarch Enoch. It begins with an enigmatic passage in the Hebrew Bible and leads via the First and Second Books of Enoch and the rabbinic exegesis of Genesis 5:21–24 then ultimately to the Third Book of Enoch, where Enoch is transformed into the highest angel Metatron. The chapter points out Enoch's sole appearance in the Hebrew Bible that is limited to the two genealogies of the patriarchs in Genesis 4 and 5. In the second genealogy in Genesis 5, Enoch is the sixth patriarch after Adam. It explains the meaning of the odd phrasing that Enoch walked with God or took his path with God and the enigmatic sentence “he was no more because God took him.”
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Furtado, Julia Vasconcelos, Ana Rita Pereira, Inês Pereira, and António Carrizo Moreira. "Does Theory Really Fit Real Life Situations?" In Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Internationalization, 419–38. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8479-7.ch016.
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This chapter analyzes the strategic international formulation of a SME technological service-based firm to perceive the internationalization theory that best suits the company throughout its history. The literature review of the most studied internationalization patterns—Uppsala Model, Born Globals, Born Again Globals, and Born Regionals—allowed comparison of the main characteristics of each theory vis-à-vis the firm's internationalization. A synthesis table summarizes the main characteristics of the internationalization process of each model and presents a clearer view of the particularities of each. Analysis of the primary data and interviews provided by the company's CEO made it possible to compare the internationalization process adopted by the company with those characteristics, facilitating the process of identifying the strategy followed. The present case study took into account the theoretical model with the greatest similarity of characteristics with the path followed by the firm, as well as its learning and future plans.
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Wue, Roberta. "Introduction." In Art Worlds. Hong Kong University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888208463.003.0001.
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Offers a history and historiography of Shanghai and Shanghai art before turning to the unique circumstances of the late nineteenth-century art world. Taking advantage of Shanghai’s marketplace, professional artists took on multiple roles as entrepreneurs, celebrities, entertainers and public figures as well as image-makers. Serving a large and anonymous urban clientele, artists made contact with their audiences via fan paintings, art advertising and Shanghai’s growing mass media. The introduction highlights the book’s new avenues of inquiry, ranging from art world infrastructures, histories of mass media, print and reception and its use of primary sources such as the newspaper advertisements, the industrially-produced book, artist writings and period guidebooks.
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Ochoa, Rolando. "Kidnapping." In Intimate Crimes, 69–100. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798460.003.0004.
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This chapter presents a first attempt at a methodologically sound history of the crime of kidnapping—in particular, its evolution from the 1970s to today in Mexico and specifically in Mexico City, from existing only as a political tool used by radical groups to promote their struggle or raise funds for their cause, to a crime that is simply economical in nature. Kidnapping has become a crime that affects mainly the working and middle classes as opposed to its traditional wealthy victims. The chapter analyses the evolution of kidnapping gangs and also how the government responded to them via a diverse set of policies. It also describes the gangs which took part in this crime.
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Offer, Avner. "Charles Hilliard Feinstein 1932–2004." In Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 153 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, VII. British Academy, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264348.003.0009.
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Charles Hilliard Feinstein (1932–2004), a Fellow of the British Academy, worked out the structure and size of the British economy from 1965 and back to mid-Victorian times. Beyond scholarship, his life subsumed a longer arc: the quest for an equitable South Africa in his youth, and its resumption in his final years. The economics that appealed to Feinstein were those of Karl Marx, and he submitted an honours dissertation on the labour theory of value. He was attracted to the University of Cambridge by the presence there of the Marxist economist Maurice Dobb, and the two remained close for years afterwards. In 1958, Feinstein took a research position in Cambridge's Department of Applied Economics, where he adapted national income series for immediate use. In 1963, he became an assistant university lecturer in economic history, and fellow and director of studies in economics at Clare College. Feinstein published a book entitled National Income towards the end of the heroic phase of historical national accounting.
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Dasgupta, Subrata. "Missing Links." In It Began with Babbage. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199309412.003.0007.
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In Chapter 2, I suggested that Babbage’s place in the history of computing was twofold: first, because his Analytical Engine represented, for the first time, the idea of automatic universal computing and how this idea might be implemented, and second, because some of his design ideas—the store, mill, control, user interface via punched cards—anticipated some fundamental principles of the electronic universal computer that would be created some 75 years after his death. There is a modernity to his idea that makes us pause. Indeed, it led Babbage scholar Allan Bromley to admit that he was “bothered” by the architectural similarity of the Analytical Engine to the modern computer, and he wondered whether there is an inevitability to this architecture: Is this the only way a computer could be organized internally? Thus, Babbage’s creativity lay not only in conceiving a machine that had no antecedent, but also it lay in his envisioning an idea of universal computing that disappeared and then reappeared many decades later, and came to be the dominant architectural principle in computing. This observation is, of course, present-centered; we might be perilously close to what Herbert Butterfield had called the “Whig interpretation of history” (see Prologue, section VII ), for we seem to be extolling Babbage’s achievement because of its resonance with the achievements of our own time. But were there any direct consequences of his idea? What happened after Babbage? Did he have any influence on those who came after? And, if not, what took place in the development of what we have come to call computer science? In fact, there is a view that between Babbage’s mechanical world of computing and the electronic age, nothing really happened—that the time in between represented the Dark Ages in the history of computing. This is, of course, as misguided a view as another held by historians at one time that Europe, between the end of the Roman Empire (circa fifth century) and the Renaissance (the 15th–16th centuries)—the Middle Ages—was in a state of intellectual and creative backwardness.
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Jo, Ji-Yeon O. "Koreans in China." In Homing. University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824867751.003.0002.
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I trace the sociopolitical history of Korean Chinese, illustrating the pathways they took to become Chinese citizens while negotiating their national minority status as ethnic Koreans. Relative to other diaspora Koreans, Korean Chinese have succeeded to a remarkable degree at maintaining the Korean language and cultural traditions; this is primarily due to the communal living that they were able to sustain due to the Chinese government’s tolerant ethnic policy, which allowed not only the establishment of the Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture, but also ethnic education via the Korean language. Nevertheless, their status as diasporans residing near the national border with the ancestral homeland yet largely prohibited from “returning” has created an affective condition of “longing” among the Korean Chinese, a longing which has been intergenerationally transmitted through family stories, metaphorical teachings, and cultural traditions.
Conference papers on the topic "Toorak (Vic ) History"
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Mas, Vicente, and Giancarlo Cataldi. "Valencia: the territorial structures of the Roman city substratum." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5304.
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Authors: Giancarlo Cataldi. Via dei Rustici 8, 50122 Firenze +39 055295380 Vicente Mas Llorens. Plaza de José María Orense 5 pta. 2. +34 629629226. Keywords: Roman Valencia, substratum permanent structures, city planning, historical transformations Text abstract: The shape of the territory and the urban settlement of numerous Valencian cities were strongly conditioned by the original imprinting of Roman planning, characterized –as it is known- by large scale infrastructures, by settlements of orthogonal axes and by the allocation of the plot division into square modular divisions called centuriae. All the later interventions took necessarily into account such structures, which underwent numerous transformations over time, especially from the second half of the twentieth century. Then innovations and developments in modern technology contributed –more than in any other period– to neglect and override the traces of the original configuration. Territorial and urban research into Roman structures in the Italian peninsula has allowed the recognition of a sufficiently large number of plans, thus allowing the development of a complete general research method to read analogous structures in different Romanized territories. The authors now propose to apply this method to the territory of the Valencian Community. The rectilinear outline of Via Augusta with its forking side paths, the orthogonal signs of the agrarian fabric, the military milestones and the administrative divisions suggest, also in this case, the possibility of retracing the original pattern. Its structure could contribute, among other things, to explain the logic of the expansions outside the walls of the historic centre of Valencia that might otherwise seem arbitrary and meaningless.