| Description |
87 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Digging up the past
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The Lerner archaeology series
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Ancient art of city planning: Introduction -- Why plan a city? -- City planner's job -- Study of ancient city planning -- Greek city: emigrants and colonizers -- Public life and public works -- Private life and private houses -- Some planned cities of ancient Greece: Rebuilding of Miletus -- Paestum, Miletus , and Olynthus -- Cities of Alexnder the Great and his successors -- Alexander and Dinocrates -- Priene and Alexandria -- Cities of the Roman Empire: Etruscans -- Roman architects and city planners -- Standard plan for a Roman town -- Public buildings and their use -- Roman's brand of city planning -- Egypt and Mesopotamia: Egyptians -- Soldiers, dreamers, and pyramid-builders -- Land between two rivers -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Index. |
| Summary |
Examines the art of city planning as it was in ancient times, and describes some of the oldest planned cities, now in ruins, of Greece, the Roman Empire, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. |
| Subject |
City planning -- Juvenile literature.
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Cities and towns, Ancient -- Juvenile literature.
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City planning.
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Cities and towns, Ancient.
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| Added Author |
Segal, Arthur.
City planning in ancient times.
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| ISBN |
0822508362 |
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