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The traffic systems of Pompeii / Eric E. Poehler.
Penn Museum Library HE347 .P64 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poehler, Eric, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traffic engineering--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--History.
- Traffic engineering.
- City and town life--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--History.
- City and town life.
- Streets--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--History.
- Streets.
- Infrastructure (Economics)--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--History.
- Infrastructure (Economics).
- History.
- Pompeii (Extinct city)--Social conditions.
- Pompeii (Extinct city).
- Pompeii (Extinct city)--Economic conditions.
- Economic history.
- Social conditions.
- Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 276 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "This book is the first sustained examination of the development of road infrastructure in Pompeii--from the archaic age to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE--and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Modern scholarship; the new myths of ancient traffic; the street surface and rut creation; vehicles, laws, and attitudes; control of urban streets; the shape of the book
- The development of Pompeii's urban street network
- Surfaces of the street
- Architecture of the street
- Evidence of traffic
- The traffic systems of Pompeii
- World of the mulio
- Traffic in the Roman world
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190614676
- 0190614676
- OCLC:
- 978250040
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