La monumentalisation de Carthage et des cités de l’Africa de 146 AEC à la fin du IIe s. EC

The role played by Carthage as a center of diffusion of
Punic culture and then as a Roman provincial capital is
fundamental in the emergence and development of
Punic-Roman urbanism. The Republican phase that
followed the destruction of Punic Carthage was not
characterized by a total halt of urban life in the ancient
Punic cities, despite its strong decline caused by the
absence of civic life. The resumption of an urbanization
dynamic in the Roman period, following the refoundation
of Carthage under Augustus, was also slow and its
peak occurred only at the end of the Antonine era.