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Factors in the Zoning of Cities: A Symposium: Height Limitations
The earliest limitations on building height, as far as the writer has been able to determine, were established in Rome under the Emperors Augustus and Trajan. The congestion of population in Rome, as in modern cities, made the high tenement house profitable. Acting under the pressure of complaint against the overcrowding, with its fire hazard, Augustus limited the height of all new buildings to 70 ft., and Trajan established a 60-ft. limitation.t The need for regulation and the precedent for it are, therefore, not less than 1 500 years old.
Factors in the Zoning of Cities: A Symposium: Height Limitations
The earliest limitations on building height, as far as the writer has been able to determine, were established in Rome under the Emperors Augustus and Trajan. The congestion of population in Rome, as in modern cities, made the high tenement house profitable. Acting under the pressure of complaint against the overcrowding, with its fire hazard, Augustus limited the height of all new buildings to 70 ft., and Trajan established a 60-ft. limitation.t The need for regulation and the precedent for it are, therefore, not less than 1 500 years old.
Factors in the Zoning of Cities: A Symposium: Height Limitations
Crane, Jacob L. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 88 ; 0640-0652
2021-01-01
131925-01-01 pages
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