Peter had used the time of his incarceration for study, and the history of Italy was a particular topic he’d delved into with great interest. Three hundred years earlier, the area they were now walking in had been a sprawling suburb of Rome. But it was around that time many of the major cities of Earth began to shrink, to let the countryside return to a more rural state in the interests of quality of life. Sprawling metropolises came to be seen as an eyesore and, as people moved to the new planets that were being discovered thanks to hyperspace travel, many cities began to reverse their outward sprawl and pull back to a downtown area and a few smaller suburbs. After all, to work in Rome or Paris or New York, one no longer had to live near the city. Many preferred a quieter life in smaller cities or even towns or villages of only a few thousand people. Throughout much of the world, the past one hundred and fifty years had seen a return to “traditional” architecture. The world was now unified politically, but people still wanted to hold on to some aspects of their heritage.
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