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Description: The Architecture of the Roman Empire, Volume II: An Urban Appraisal
Properly urban buildings must have streets and squares in order to function; without streets and squares, they are not urban at all; streets and squares alone, of the kind that can be traced today on the abandoned ground of failed subdivisions, are just lifeless patterns. Streets approach, bound, and fix the locations of buildings, linking them together and...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.32-73
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00121.005

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