ABOUT THIS BOOKThe Golden House of Nero tells the story of town-planning and architecture in Rome from the primitive huts of the 8th century B.C. to the brick-faced tenements of 1000 years later. Over 100 illustrations accompany the text. The book deals in detail with the great period of city building—the Rome of Sulla, Caesar, Cicero, and of Nero's "Golden House," the emperor's fantastic landscape architecture and palace. The author tells how Rome tried to solve the problems of a city with a million popultion, and he traces the legacy of Roman urbanism through the Dark Ages to the renaissance of Italian towns.