by David Macaulay · L'Ecole des Loisirs · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782211050692
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«Naissance d'une cité romaine» is the illustrated book by David Macaulay, published by L'Ecole des Loisirs in paperback (128 pages, in French).
With detailed black-and-white illustrations, the author shows how the Romans planned and built their cities. It focuses on Verbonia, a fictional city whose layout and architecture are inspired by cities founded between 300 BC and AD 150, and includes aqueducts, an amphitheater and other public infrastructure.
Macaulay's original work, City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction, was published in 1974; this French edition is from 1998.
For young readers and fans of historical non-fiction who want to discover how a Roman city was planned and built.
David Macaulay is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988), and its updated revisions The New Way Things Work (1998) and The Way Things Work Now (2016). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design, and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books.
