About this title: How the Ancient Romans extensively planned and built their cities. Readers will learn how a city's population and size were determined prior to construction and how streets, sidewalks, roads, bridges, and sewer systems were designed. Illustrated with detailed b&w drawings.
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Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 112 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 112 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fair. Dust Cover Missing. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Good. Dust Cover Missing. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Date Published: 1974-09-04
ISBN-13:9780395194928ISBN:039519492X
Description: Good in Fair jacket. Light wear to the cover. The dust jacket has a lot of edge tears and taped at the top and bottom of the spine. Private library of imprint on title page. Tight binding. Unless noted, there are no marked, loose, or torn pages, and, it is not a remainder or an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Collins
Date Published: 1977-01-01
ISBN-13:9780001921573ISBN:0001921576
Description: Good. This is an ex library copy, clean copy Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
ISBN-13:9780395194928ISBN:039519492X
Description: Good. 039519492X Book could have shelf wear, or a bump, or sunfade to edges. These are new unread books from the publisher with one of these conditions. See are feedback as customers are satisfied in how we grade our books. Has remainder mark. Fast shipping and customer service is our number 1 priority! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sandpiper
Date Published: 1983-10-24
ISBN-13:9780395349229ISBN:0395349222
Description: Very Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. Light edge and corner wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near fine. Nice clean book with top right corner bumped. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sandpiper
Date Published: 1983-10-24
ISBN-13:9780395349229ISBN:0395349222
Description: Very Good. 23rd printing paperback, no marks noted in text, All of our products are cleaned with an disinfectant for your protection before shipping. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780395194928ISBN:039519492X
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 9 1/4 X 12 1/4" Book is clean and unmarked. White jacket is worn and discolored, and has several short tears. read more
Binding: Large Pb
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780395349229ISBN:0395349222
Description: Macaulay, David (illustrator) Good+-'74 Ed. Sticker & some creases to cover. Previous owner's sticker on inside front cover. Corner crease on last pg. Dent on bottom edge. Text and black and white illustrations depict how the Romans planned and constructed their cities. read more
"I've been reading a couple of these David Macualay books because they're all at the DC library and they're all amazing. You can tell that each book is loaded with years of research, which he somehow manages to distill into about a dozen pages of actual text and a hundred drawings. I undoubtedly learned more about Roman cities in this book than I learned about Greek cities in the 200 page book I just read about them, as good as it was. The fact that Macaulay's books are written and accessible to kids is even cooler and more impressive."
C'est un livre pour enfants mais j'y ai appris plus sur l'urbanisme que dans bien des livres adultes. Son point fort c'est qu'il résume de façon visuelle presque tout ce que j'ai lu sur l'empire romain au fil des ans.
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This is a book for chidren but I learned more from it on urbanism (Roman or modern)than in many adult books. The really big thing about it is that it makes a visual summary of everything I've learned about Roman society, over many, many years."
"In this book the gifted architect, artist, and historian David MacAulay tells the story of the design and construction of a typical frontier town of the Roman empire, a standardized plan meant to implant the Roman culture on the frontier. Clear, whimsical, and painlessly informative, this is another in a great series from MacAulay along with Castle, Cathedral, Pyramid, Mill, Mosque, and Unbuilding. A lot of fun - I wish these books had been around when I was a kid."
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