Streets and Public Spaces in Constantinople

Dendroarchaeology of the mid-first millennium AD in Constantinople

“…The approximate coastline for the Byzantine period from Berger (2000) has been adapted to fit the layout of these contemporary structures to present a more informed representation of sea level at the site in the mid-first millennium.…”

Fatih Fevzipaşa Caddesi’nin Açılışı ve İstanbul’un Kentsel Gelişimindeki Yeri

“…Constantinus'un kenti yapılandırması sırasında ilk etapta kurulan iki bölgeden biri Havariyun Kilisesi çevresidir. 6 Bu bölge günü-müzde Fevzipaşa Caddesi çevresini işaret etmektedir.…”

Houses, streets and shops in Byzantine Constantinople from the fifth to the twelfth centuries

“…8, 403) possible that flights of steps did permit streets to traverse terrace lines, but simply dismissing terraces as irrelevant to reconstructing the Byzantine street pattern would seem rather rash. 48 Consequently, although a well-argued and attractive hypothesis, regrettably one must reject much of Berger's reconstruction of the street network. With this, one must also set aside his view that the capital had a planned layout employing a street grid based on this reconstruction.…”

“…In fact, even using his approach he still has to imagine some unattested streets to fill in a grid of this sort, as he says: 'The street labelled B on the sketch is interpolated, since no trace of it exists'. 49 If one realises that the postulated street-grid is illusory, then this also has implications for Berger's delineation of the regions described in the Notitia. In his view, the limits of the regions relate to this hypothetical grid and so, if the grid itself is shown to be an illusion, this part of his argument concerning the urban regions also collapses.…”