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basilica
Construction; Architecture
The public hall that formed a gathering point in every Roman city, usually with a rectangular plan ending in as apse and divided by a double file of columns. It was the inspiration for the early ...
roof run
Construction; Architecture
The horizontal distance from the outside of a bearing wall plate to the center of the ridge rafter.
roof span
Construction; Architecture
Equal to twice the roof run, or the horizontal distance between the outside faces of bearing wall plates.
urban
Design; Architecture
Of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city; of or relating to cities and the people who live in them.
