City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction

by David Macaulay (Author)

City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.
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"City charts the planning and building of an imaginary Roman city, 'Verbonia.' Macaulay focuses on the achievement of efficient and rational city planning. His brilliantly individualistic drawings capture the essential quality of the Roman character, the ability to organize." School Library Journal, Starred
David Macaulay

David Macaulay received his bachelor of architecture degree from Rhode Island School of Design. In January 1973, Macaulay went to France to work on the first of his twenty-five books, Cathedral. He then constructed a colonial Roman town (City, 1974), erected monuments to the Pharaohs (Pyramid, 1975), dissected the maze of subterranean systems below and essential to every major city (Underground, 1976), built a medieval fortress (Castle, 1977), and dismantled the Empire State Building (Unbuilding, 1980). Macaulay is perhaps best known for The Way Things Work (1988). It was followed by Black and White (1990) for which he won the 1991 Caldecott Medal. A revised edition of The Way Things Work was published in 1998 followed by Building Big, Mosque, and The Way We Work (2008).

Sheila Keenan is an established author of fiction and nonfiction, including Greetings from the 50 States; Animals in the House: A History of Pets and People; O, Say Can You See? America's Symbols, Landmarks, and Inspiring Words; and Gods, Goddesses, and Monsters: A Book of World Mythology. Her work Dogs of War is a graphic novel of historical fiction based on the role of dogs in the military.

Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780395349229
Lexile Measure
1100
Guided Reading Level
Z
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication date
October 24, 1983
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF005000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Architecture
Library of Congress categories
Antiquities
Building
Rome
Civil engineering
City planning

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