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Dr Jack Hanson

Email:
j.w.hanson@reading.ac.uk
Job title:
Visiting Research Fellow

Areas of interest

Urbanism

Complex systems

Settlement scaling theory

Demography

Economics

Inequality

Information flows

Social networks

Transport and trade

Literary representations of the city

Urban form

The built environment

Art and architecture

Computational and quantitative approaches to the humanities and social sciences

Comparative urbanism

Publications

Hanson, J. and Brughmans, T. (2022) Settlement scale and economic networks in the Roman Empire. In: Brughmans, T. and Wilson, A. , (eds.) Simulating Roman Economies: Theories, methods, and computational models. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 109-143. ISBN: 9780192857828 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857828.003.0004

Hanson, J. (2021) New approaches to the urban population and urbanization rate of the Roman Empire, AD 1 to 200. In: Lavan, M. , Jew, D. , Danon, B. , (eds.) The Uncertain Past. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge.
Altaweel, M. , Hanson, J. , Squitieri, A. (2021) The structure, centrality, and scale of urban street networks: cases from Pre-Industrial Afro-Eurasia. PLoS ONE , 16 (11). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5522/04/15191601.
Hanson, J. (2021) Urban scalograms: an experiment in scaling, emergence, and Greek and Roman urban form. Journal of Urban Archaeology ISSN: 2736-2434
Hanson, J. (2021) Cities, information, and the epigraphic habit: re-evaluating the links between the numbers of inscriptions and the sizes of sites. Journal of Urban Archaeology , 4 pp. 137-152. ISSN: 2736-2434 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.126597
Hanson, J. (2021) Sizing up Roman urbanism. In: Neal, Z. and Rozenblat, C. , (eds.) Handbook on Cities and Networks. Research handbooks in Urban Studies series Edward Elgar , London. pp. 88-106. ISBN: 9781788114707

Hanson, J. and Ortman, S. (2020) Reassessing the capacities of entertainment structures in the Roman Empire. American Journal of Archaeology , 124 (3). pp. 417-440. ISSN: 0002-9114 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3764/aja.124.3.0417
Hanson, J. , eds. (2020) Using city gates as a means of estimating ancient traffic flows. In: Wen, T. , (eds.) PLoS ONE , 15 (2). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229580

Brughmans, T. , Hanson, J. , Mandich, M. , Romanowska, I. , Rubio-Campillo, X. , Carrignon, S. , Collins-Elliott, S. , Crawford, K. , Daems, D. , Fulminante, F. , de Haas, T. , Kelly, P. , de Carmen, M. , Paliou, E. , Prignano, L. , Ritondale, M. (2019) Formal modelling approaches to complexity science in Roman Studies: a manifesto. Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal , 2 (1). pp. 1-19. ISSN: 2515-2289 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.16995/traj.367
Hanson, J. , Ortman, S. , Bettencourt, L. , Mazur, L. (2019) Urban form, infrastructure, and spatial organization in the Roman Empire. Antiquity , 93 (369). pp. 702-718. ISSN: 0003-598X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.192

Hanson, J. , Ortman, S. , Lobo, J. (2017) Urbanism and the division of labour in the Roman Empire. Journal of the Royal Society Interface , 14 (136). ISSN: 1742-5662 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0367
Hanson, J. and Ortman, S. (2017) A systematic method for estimating the populations of Greek and Roman settlements. Journal of Roman Archaeology , 30 pp. 301-324. ISSN: 1047-7594 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1047759400074134

Hanson, J. (2016) An Urban Geography of the Roman World, 100 B.C. to A.D. 300. Archaeopress ISBN: 9781784914721