Timeline for Did Ancient Roman insulae reach more than 10 storeys?
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| May 21, 2017 at 9:18 | comment | added | Pere | In the end, it's a balance between land availability, stairs and building challenges. At some point, people prefer to walk a few hundred meters to live in a less crowded quarter and avoid climbing a few hundred steps in a more centric location. | |
| Apr 18, 2015 at 19:08 | comment | added | jwenting | and worse, who says they'd even have kitchens? It wasn't unknown for cheap apartments to have no kitchen facilities, rather they'd eat in communal kitchens/restaurants.and of course bath in public bath houses. So no regular shopping trips to the supermarket, hauling back entire haunches of wild boar for Obelix and Asterix to gorge on. | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 16:02 | comment | added | o0'. | And... this is not an answer. | |
| Oct 14, 2013 at 5:31 | comment | added | Lennart Regebro | While essentially true, I have had friends that lived on the 7th or 8th floor in Paris with no elevator. Yes, they were students with little money. The same would have been true in Rome. With no space you build high. And the fact that there were laws against building over a certain height indicate that people indeed did build over that height. | |
| Oct 13, 2013 at 21:44 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Oct 13, 2013 at 21:26 | history | answered | BrianB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |