Roman Urban Street Networks : Streets and the Organization of Space in Four Cities.

The streets of Roman cities have received surprisingly little attention until recently. Traditionally the main interest archaeologists and classicists had in streets was in tracing the origins and development of the orthogonal layout used in Roman colonial cities. Roman Urban Street Networks is the...

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Main Author: Kaiser, Alan
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Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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