The ancient city of Rome with its symbolics of visible power, its viaducts, and its paved roads cutting across the hill, leaping over rivers and swamps, moving in unbroken formation, like a victorious Roman legion (Mumford, 1961, p.205). Rome was held together by a loose administrative organization, using an arithmetical notation. The British served awith traits of another race of Empire builders. The Romans had an empirical respect for any established order. The rRoman eEmpire was a product of a single expanding urban power center was; a vast city-building enterprise. It has an imprint of Rome in every part of Europe, Northern Africa, and Asia Minor, altering the way of life in old cities and establishing a social kind of new order, from the ground up, in hundreds of foundations,; ‘colonial’ towns, ‘free’ towns, towns under Romans municipal law, ‘tributary’ towns; each with a state, just before it fell into ruins (Mumford, 1961, p.205). The foundation stones of the Roman town were mainly from two other cultures, the Etruscan and the Hellenic. From the Etruscan, people who civilized the north of Italy became the religious and superstitious parts of Roman urban development (Mumford, 1961,p. 206). The acropolis of the Etruscan city was as in the Aegean, which was situated on a hill. According to Varro, it carried out Etruscan rites in founding new cities, to make surse of the favored gods, and the tracing of the outlines of the city was done by a priest who guided the plow (Mumford, 1961, p.206). The main streets were designed to cross in the middle of the city; there was a foundation that dug for the sacred relics, and ideal a place for the Forum, the Roman equivalent of acropolis and agora, conceived as one. The principle of orientation has a religious origin,. iIt would be modified by topography and be ancient in the earliest stages, as the gridiron plan would be modified, as; a kind of fossil of an earlier culture, long after its cosmic significance (Mumford, 1961, p.207).

The new towns seem all to have been planned for a limited population forf around fifty thousand, Placentia and Cremona settled in the same year (c.118 B.C), with six thousand families each. In many regions, colonization was accompanied by a similar order in planning landscape, mapping out roads, and driving fields into long rectangular parcels that are still visible fronm the air in these times (Mumford, 1961, p.206). However, there is so little direct testimony as to what life was like in ancient cities outside of Athens and Rome, even in poems and novels set in an urban environment, that Libanius’' observedations are quite precious today. As Aristotle before him puts the social function of the city about its subsidiary, ultimately needs lead to services (Mumford, 1961, p.206). In Romans public architecture, the scale was everything; the Roman architects found a mass form for all the collective occasions of life,; in the market, the amphitheater, the bath, the racecourse, and some of the forms were passed over to the city for more than a thousand years. As in the form of open spaces of Rome played a larger part than they did in most earlier cities., Rome's most characteristic contribution, both to urban hygiene and to urban forms was the bath. In the history of the great baths, you can find the condensed story of Rome. These people became a nation, thought their capacity of sturdy farmers, close to nature,; hard working, strong, enduring hardships and taking blows are the words used to describe the strongest people in antiquity (Mumford, 1961, p.225).