Marshall Long, in Architectural Acoustics (Second Edition), 2014 Rome and the West to a city that sustained its citizens for many centuries can offer insight, particularly for those responsible for the major pieces of civil engineering infrastructure that underpin and enable much of modern life.
Applying the sustainability frameworks of Bell and the model of the interconnection of resilience and sustainability by Elmqvist et al. Purposeful sustainability is relatively new but in this chapter we will explore the sustainability of Constantinople through various lenses of sustainable thought. There is no doubt that Constantinople was a resilient city, successfully surviving both threats and change over many centuries, but was it also a sustainable city? Constantinople’s longevity offers a chance to explore sustainability and its numerous facets from a long-term point of view. Even after the original water infrastructure eventually fell into disuse, it formed the basis of the Ottoman era water system which lasted until the start of the 20th century. The water supply infrastructure in Constantinople – three aqueducts, two of unparalleled length, and a complex network of water storage cisterns – was the foundation that allowed the city to grow and prosper for over a millennium. However, without its complex and innovative water infrastructure, the small promontory at the end of the Thracian peninsula would have remained in its natural state, largely dry and capable of sustaining no more than a few thousand people as it did in its earliest days as the Greek fishing village of Byzantium. The city’s location, straddling the meeting point of Europe and Asia and overlooking the Bosphorus, has been hailed as key to its long survival as one of the most important cities in history. Today, as Istanbul, its population is estimated at over 15 million. After the fall of Rome, it continued, first as the capital of the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, then as the capital of the Ottoman Empire from the 15th century to the 20th century.
Martin Crapper, in Sustainable Water Engineering, 2020 2.1 IntroductionĬonstantinople was created in the early fourth century in order to replace Rome as the capital of the Roman Empire.
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