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Learning objectives :
To familiarize the historical progress of planning
To review old concepts of spatial planning
Major contents:
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C.
D.
buildings, and
open spaces
Heraklion, Greece
Founded by the Arabs in 824 AD
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Acropolis of Athens
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According to Roman tradition, the city of Rome was founded by Romulus on 21 April
753 BC
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design
Parks shifted from private to public settings
naturalistic parks were created in the U.S. by
Frederick Law Olmstead
goals:
support active and passive uses
collect water
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designed by
Olmsted, 1869
fashionable
location for
the wealthy to
live
often copied
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planning
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Letchworth
Welwyn
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Radburn,
New Jersey
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access to greenspace
between 48% and 95%
gardens
squares
sports fields
restaurants
theaters
intensity of traffic
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Islamabad
The Developing Urban Detroit Area
Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro
Aspra Spitia. A New "Greek" City
The University of the Punjab
Doxiadis Office Building
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1867-1959
532 architectural
designs built
(twice as many
drawn)
designed houses,
office buildings and
a kind of suburban
layout he called
Broadacre City
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Drawn from:
Richard LeGates and Frederic Stout,
edge/articles/a-brief-history-ofurban-planning/
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THANKS
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