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Article: City Planning
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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CITY PLANNING
CITY PLANNING.
In early modern Europe city planning was not a profession, as it is today, but a function of public administration and the emerging profession of architecture. Plans for new cities, extensions, and redevelopment were made by monarchs, bureaucrats, municipal authorities, architects, military engineers, and amateurs. From the mid-fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, the broad trend in the theory of city planning was increased understanding of cities as complex systems of interrelated elements having to do with public utility and beautification.
Planning was informed by practices established in the Middle Ages and memories of ancient Rome. The medieval ...
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