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The rise and fall and rise of the Roman Empire

David Galbraith graphs the population of Rome from 300 BC to the present.

The population [of Rome] during the Renaissance was miniscule (yet it was still a global center), when Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel it was considerably smaller than a town like Palo Alto is today (60K); Rome at its nadir was about the size of Google (20K employees); the growth of Rome during the Industrial era is much greater than the rise of Ancient Rome.

David, you should check out The Inheritance of Rome; I'm about 100 pages in and pretty interesting so far. Also, it would be instructive to do the same graph but Rome's population as a percentage of world population.

By Jason Kottke  •  Oct 22, 2009  •  cities   David Galbraith   population   Rome

Video of artist Stephen Wiltshire drawing a

Video of artist Stephen Wiltshire drawing a huge panorama of Rome entirely from memory. (via nickbaum)

Update: Video of Withshire drawing Tokyo from memory. (thx, eric)

By Jason Kottke  •  Nov 3, 2006  •  art   rome   stephenwiltshire   video

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