Pieter Houten is a research fellow within the ERC-project 'LatinNow: Latinization of the North-Western Provinces' at the University of Nottingham, UK, and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at the University of Oxford, UK. He wrote his PhD thesis Civitates Hispaniae within the ERC-funded project ‘An Empire of 2,000 Cities’ at Leiden University, Netherlands. His research focuses on urbanisation and Latinisation on the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman period.
"""[A] new analytical and well-documented work, with new interpretative and methodological contributions, which could enter fully into the scientific discussion on the phenomenon of urbanisation in Hispania... Houten's work... becomes part of the group of reference studies on Hispania that must be known and handled today."" - sehepunkte ""Sin duda, la imagen global que presenta sobre el urbanismo hispano alcanza a convertirse hoy en un estudio de referencia, aunque siguen quedando cuestiones pendientes que solo clarificará el desarrollo de la arqueología."" - Zephyrus [Without a doubt, the overall picture it presents of Hispanic urbanism has become a reference study today, although there are still outstanding questions that will only be clarified by the development of archaeology.] ""Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal está llamada a ser una obra de referencia sobre el urbanismo en la Península Ibérica en los primeros años del Imperio, ya que en sus menos de quinientas páginas logra condensar la imagen urbana del conjunto territorial antes y después de la llegada de Roma, teniendo en cuenta su diversidad cultural, lo que le permite interpretar las múltiples soluciones urbanísticas que se desarrollaron en Hispania."" - Gerión [Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal is destined to become a reference work on urbanism on the Iberian Peninsula in the Early Empire, as in its less than five hundred pages it manages to condense the urban image of the whole territory before and after the arrival of Rome, taking into account its cultural diversity, which allows it to interpret the multiple urban planning solutions that developed in Hispania.]"