When efforts to assemble the map electronically are undertaken, she also will be able to help determine whether a match is right or wrong. All this information would be hard to get without tearing up large swaths of modern Rome. The Forma Urbis can help answer questions about how people were kept healthy, how they were fed and how authorities enforced the peace in this large metropolis, among many other things, Trimble said. Monumental space, commercial space, living space and religious space tended to be mixed together. People working now on how to solve urban sprawl want to mix it up in the same way.
Ancient history is deeply relevant.