Date: April 10th, 2008

The economics of water: Part 4, Rome invents the municipality

10 April, 2008 (10:01) | Cities, History, Infrastructure, Multipart posts, Rome, Urbanization | No comments

[Continued from the previous Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.]
 
In Part 1 on the economics of water, I claimed that because housing is what makes cities, piping and water management was a precondition of forming cities, and is a controlling variable on successful urbanization in the global south, where the world’s rapidly expanding cities are […]