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Town planning, past, present and possible (1911)

Triggs, H. Inigo (Harry Inigo), 1876-1923 · London : Methuen & co. · leaf 91

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y from European examples. The city of Selinus, in the South of Sicily, wasfounded by the Dorians in 628 B.C., and is the earliestregularly laid out city of which we have any trace.A most fascinating restoration has been recently madeby M. Jean Hulet, a pensionnaire of the Ecole desF 65 TOWN… … FIG. 9.—A RESTORATION OF SELINUS was entirely fortified and divided as to its lengthby a great street running straight from north to southand seven metres wide ; and as to its width by sevenor eight transverse streets cutting the first at rightangles, and dividing the houses into nearly…

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