#THOCS2E6 - INFRASTRUCTURE

For the first time, the city is subdivided and the neighborhoods are born. Building plots, apartment blocks and villages invaded on the commons were sold or given to influential citizens. Also for the first time, the streets are given names, the first population censuses are carried out. The first stone bridges are built.

- Urban planning, a grid for residential and public areas (500 BC),
- The first city hall, Villa Publica, which means "Casa do Povo" (435 BC), was opened,
- The first paved street is built, with a slope for draining water, channels, and storm drains (400 BC),
- First true arch bridge, the Rhodes Footbridge (400 BC),
- Via Ápia was the first long road built and paved (312 BC),
- The world's first lighthouse was built in the port of Piraeus, essentially a small stone column with a fire torch (300 BC),
- The first signs with street names appear, the Roman landmarks (264 BC),
- Founded the first neighborhoods in the world in Rome: Colina, Esquilina, Palatina and Suburana (246 BC),
- Dry dock (200 BC),
- First stone bridge built architecturally (142 BC),
- The Silk Road was built, a set of commercial routes that connected East and West (114 BC),
- The world's first weather station was built, a combination of sundials, a water clock and a weather vane (50 BC),
- The world's first ground zero, the Golden Landmark, was built as the starting point of a road system (20 BC),
- Cranes for building and loading ships,

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