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POMPEII FORUM PROJECT


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Modifications to this Document

This document was released on the WWW in May 1994 and is intended to remain unchanged. Modifications have been minor: correction of spelling errors, minor format changes, the addition of the full citation to my 1994 AJA article. For more current news go to the Pompeii Forum Project Home Page.

Introduction

The Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative venture that focuses on the urban center of Pompeii. (The forum at any Roman town was the urban center housing the town's main religious, civic, and commercial institutions.) There are three components to the project: documentation of standing remains; archaeological analysis; and urban study that seeks a) to interpret the developments at Pompeii in the broader context of urban history and b) to identify at Pompeii recurring patterns of urban evolution that can be applied to contemporary issues in American urbanism.

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