Architecture & Built Environment · Urban Design & Planning
A topic within Urban Design & Planning, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Camillo Sitte
Argues that irregular medieval squares and streets achieve an enclosure and visual harmony that the rigid geometric grids of modern city planning destroy, and that planners should study old cities as artists, not just engineers.
Notes on this copyPatrick Geddes
Planning has to work from a prior survey of a regions geography, history and civic life, not from an abstract diagram imposed on a site, diagnosis before treatment applied to the city.
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