Date: April 11th, 2008

The economics of water: Part 5, Roman municipal finance

11 April, 2008 (08:18) | Cities, History, Infrastructure, Multipart posts, Rome, Urbanization | No comments

[Continued from the previous Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.]
 
As we’ve seen so far in this extended series on the economics of water, since housing is what makes cities, for cities to scale upward, they have to bring infrastructure to their slums.  The Roman emperors, who needed larger capital to administer a […]