Traffic Systems of Pompeii

The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the development of road infrastructure in Pompeii-from the archaic age to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE-and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire. Eric E. Poehler, an authority on Pompeii''s uniquely preserved urban structure, distills over five hundred instances of street-level "wear and tear" to reveal for t...