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  • Konrad J. Perlman
    Description: I am a retired city planner with 43 years in the field, and will publish posts and commentaries about city planning/New Urbanism, politics, books, movies, and other matters of personal interest.

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Rome is the eternal city. I wonder if some of our modern cities will endure as well, even with earthquake proof engineering. Rome is on my list of 5 places I would like to see before I die.

Al Sanders

My wife and I have just returned from Italy and our first trip to Roma. We were, of course, greatly impressed by this indescribably splendid city, which, in my mind at least, is one of the most interesting places on the face of this earth. As we strolled through the narrow streets I noticed the interesting pattern in which the paving stones are laid. As you noted in your article, they are about 4" square and remarkably uniform in both size and shape. Each time that I walked over them I wondered when they had been laid down. Do you have any information about that? As you may know, the streets of Napoli are paved with the same types of stones and in the same pattern as well. Strange. I wonder if the streets of these two cities were paved with those types of stones at or about the same time.
Al Sanders
Charleston, S.C.

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