by men who combine two
things which seldom go together, scientific and parochial knowledge.
But a body of evidence already waits to be used, and though its
discussion may lead--as it has led me--into topographical minutiae,
where completeness and certainty are too often unattainable and errors
are fatally easy, my results may nevertheless contain some new
suggestions and may help some future workers.

I have avoided technical terms as far as I could, and that not merely
in the interests of the general reader. Such terms are too often both
ugly and unnecessary. When a foreign scholar writes of a Roman town as
'scamnirt' or 'strigirt', it is hard to avoid the feeling that this
is neither pleasant nor needful. Perhaps it is not even accurate, as I
shall point out below. I have accordingly tried to make my text as
plain as possible and to confine technicalities to the footnotes.

F.H.

CONTENTS

LIST OF PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLE OF MEASURES

1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON ANCIENT TOWN-PLANNING

2. GREEK TOWN-PLANNING. THE ORIGINS: BABYLON

3. GREEK TOWN-PLANNING. FIRST EFFORTS

4. GREEK TOWN-PLANNING. THE MACEDONIAN AGE

5. ITALY. THE ORIGINS

6. ITALY. THE LATE REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE

7. ITALIAN TOWNS

8. ROMAN PROVINCIAL TOWNS. I

9. ROMAN PROVINCIAL TOWNS. II

10. ROMAN BUILDING LAWS

11. THE SEQUEL

APPENDIX. TOWN-PLANNING IN CHINA

INDEX

LIST OF PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

(For precise references to sources see the various footnotes.)

STREETS IN TIMGAD. From a photograph
1. BABYLON. After Koldewey and others
2. PIRAEUS. After Milchofer
3. SELINUS. After Cavallari and Hulot and Fougeres
4. CYRENE. After Smith and Porcher, 1864
5. SOLUNTUM. After Cavallari, 1875
6. PRIENE, GENERAL OUTLINE. After Zippelius
7. PRIENE, DETAILS OF A PART OF THE EXCAVATED AREA. After the large
plan by Wiegand and Schrader, 1904
8. PRIENE, PANORAMA OF THE TOWN. As restored by Zippelius
9. MILETUS. After Wiegand, 1911
10. GERASA. After Schumacher
11. TERRAMARA OF CASTELLAZZO DI FONTANELLATO. After T.E. Peet
12. MARZABOTTO. After Brizio and Levi
13. POMPEII. After Mau, 1910
14. MODENA. From the plan of Zuccagni-Orlandini, 1844
15. TURIN. Reduced from a plan published by the Society for the
diffusion of Useful Knowledge (_Maps_, London, 1844, vol. ii)
after Zuccagni-Orlandini, 1844
16. AOSTA. From Promis and others
17. FLORENCE. (A) Mode