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Nero’s Rome was not so different from today’s world: Stratospheric rents, gentrification and chaotic traffic
The historian Dimitri Tilloi-d’Ambrosi has published an essay on daily life in the imperial capital, which was home to a mix of nationalities, exclusive and run-down neighborhoods, and where citizens suffered from noise pollution