During the late first century B.C.E., Rome started to experience urban sprawl. As the city’s footprint and population expanded, temples, circuses, amphitheaters, forums and baths began to proliferate.

That’s according to a new study by researchers at Sony’s computer science lab in Rome. They combined population ... such as Seibert’s as “sprawl.” Ewing and other researchers have ...

Rome is author of books including “The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation” and “The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of ...