Constantinople, New Rome as model of Late Antiquity urbs regia

The buildings and their spatial definition of Constantinople New Rome, seen as a magic reproduction of Rome, represent the example to be reproduced for those cities (and especially their courts), which aspired to become urbs regia or basileousa polis. The palace, the hippodrome, the streets, the porches, the thermal baths, the columns, the statues, which own magic and prophetic values, are the "common denominators" which define the development of the political ideology through urban ideology, from the Antiquity to the Renaissance.