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Ancient Town-Planning

CHAPTER III
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The town, he says, was divided lengthways by four streets and crossways by three.

Plainly, therefore, it had a definite and rectangular street-planning, though the brevity of the historian does not enable us to decide how many house-blocks it had and how far the lesser streets were symmetrical with these seven principal thoroughfares.

In most of the cases which we shall meet in the following sections of this treatise, the number of streets running-straight or at right angles is very much greater than the number assigned to Thurii.

I may refer for example to the plans of Priene, Miletus, and Timgad.
_Rhodes_.
A third city assigned to Hippodamus is Rhodes.

This, according to Strabo, was laid out by 'the architect of the Piraeus'; according to others, it was built round its harbour like the seats of an ancient theatre round the orchestra, that is, fan-fashion like Karlsruhe.
However, this case is doubtful.


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