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Ancient Town-Planning

CHAPTER IV
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wide, ran at right angles up the slopes, with steps like those of the older Scarborough or of Assisi.[24] The whole area has not yet been explored and we do not know whether the houses were smaller or larger, richer or poorer, in one quarter than in another, but the regularity of the street-plan certainly extended over the whole site.
[24] Compare Soluntum, p.

36, n.

2.
Despite this reasoned and systematic arrangement, no striking artistic effects appear to have been attempted.

No streets give vistas of stately buildings.

No squares, save that of the Agora--120 by 230 ft.
within an encircling colonnade--provide open spaces where larger buildings might be grouped and properly seen.


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