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Ancient Town-Planning

CHAPTER IV
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It had, as its excavators calculate, about 400 individual dwelling-houses and a population possibly to be reckoned at 4,000.
In the centre was the Agora or market-place, with a temple and other large buildings facing on to it; round them were other public buildings and some eighty blocks of private houses, each block measuring on an average 40 x 50 yds.

and containing four or five houses.

The broader streets, rarely more than 23 ft.

wide, ran level along the terraces and parallel to one another.

Other narrower streets, generally about 10 ft.


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