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City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction (1974)

by David Macaulay

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Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.
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Both the pictures and the explanations helped me relive the place and time. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 6, 2023 |
A lovely illustrated guide to the building of a Roman city from planing to population limit, with temples, baths. apartments, shop, houses, gutters, sewers, and public toilets. ( )
  quondame | Jan 31, 2021 |
Amazing little book, if you have kids and this doesn't rock their little world you should probably give them up for adoption. Honestly, makes me cry when I remember what books are used at school to teach kids history. ( )
  Paul_S | Dec 23, 2020 |
This is a Macaulay book about the founding and development of a roman city around the time of the first millennium and the techniques and tools they used to arrange the city and the engineering problems and solutions that were traditionally foreseen and addressed. It doesn’t shy away from traditions and roman cultural touchstones which might have been seen in a frontier city of the roman empire that really helps to immerse the reader in the story, shallow though it is, of this city; which, helps to really highlight the similarities of the technique used by the roman architects and engineers when we see how different their society was. ( )
  jcook18 | May 28, 2019 |
Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.
  riselibrary_CSUC | Oct 1, 2018 |
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For Janice
and things to come

special thanks to Hardu, Mary,
Sidney, Bill, my parents,
Melanie, Walter, and Vitruvius.
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By 200 B.C. soldiers of the Roman Republic had conquered all of Italy except the Alps.
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