The Romans created the largest urban system with an excellent transportation system The Romans were masters of engineering efficiency creating aqueducts sewers roads bridges and great public buildings like arenas and baths ID: 515776
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Roman Urban System
The Romans created the largest urban system with an excellent transportation system
The Romans were masters of engineering efficiency creating aqueducts, sewers, roads, bridges and great public buildings like arenas and baths.Slide2Slide3
Roman cities had great contrast-great villas & spacious avenues, aqueducts, baths and sewers, yet also –Wretchedly poor housing in 4-5 story over-crowded tenements, dirty, noisy, crime-ridden streets and a population composed of ½ slaves.
With the collapse of the empire the city of 1 ½ m. shrunk to less than 50,000Slide4
Urban Growth Elsewhere
China-rapid growth in the Han Dynasty period-Xian became the Rome of East Asia.
Timbuktu developed in West Africa in the 14
th
cent. While Meroe on the upper Nile developed advanced metallurgy.
Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital was the most advanced city in the world with 100,000 by the 16th cent.Slide5
Huang He and Wei River Valleys
The Chinese purposefully planned their cities.
- centered on a
vertical structure
- inner wall built
around center - temples and
palaces for the
leadership class
Terracotta Warriors guarding the tomb of the Chinese Emperor Qin Xi HuangSlide6
Pre industrial Europe
Muslim invasion of Europe and later the Crusades opened up trade and contact between Europe and the Far East and Near East
Paris, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Lisbon, Naples and Venice revived and grew.
By mid-15
th
cent. London had 80,000 and Paris had 120,000. By 19th cent. London was 1 m. while Paris had only 670,000