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    An Introduction to Town Planning in Ancient Greece
    An Introduction to Town Planning in Ancient Greece
    An Introduction to Town Planning in Ancient Greece
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    An Introduction to Town Planning in Ancient Greece

    By David Campbell

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    One of the most significant to the evolution of the modern city, were the cities of the classical age of the Greek city states. This period saw the flowering of the Classical Greek mind. It is the beginnings of a culture that is recognizably western and it was a time that saw a significant maturation of urban form. Urban innovation that was to eventually influence the form and social structure of the modern city.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Campbell
    Release dateJul 2, 2024
    ISBN9798227861344
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      An Introduction to Town Planning in Ancient Greece - David Campbell

      GREEK CITIES

      There are many era’ in the history of Urban Development that warrant mentioning as significant

      influences in the development and evolution of the modern city. One of the most significant to the

      evolution of the modern city, were the cities of the classical age. This chapter will examine the influence of the cities of the pre Alexandrine Greek city states. This period saw the flowering of the Classical Greek mind. It is the beginnings of a culture that is recognizably western and it was a time that saw a significant maturation of urban form. Urban innovation that was to eventually influence the form and social structure of the modern city. ¹ ª

      The size and layout of any city are both influenced by the political shape of the community that they

      house. The built form of the city then in turn helps to shape the community they house². This is no truer for any culture than the Greek city states clinging to the rugged Adriatic shores in the first millennium BC. Here the Greeks experimented with, and indeed invented many of the forms of government known. It was here that the concepts of both democracy and tyrant were invented and here that the first theoretic body of literature on urban design was amassed. Not just a codex of laws on building these were the musings of some of the greatest thinkers of antiquity.

      While many eastern cities were laid out in a circular form with converging spokes centering on the palace, or a temple in the center, and with their social classes clustering in rank and state according to their proximity to the hub, the Greek city was by contrast a democratic form of layout. The land was appropriated (in the newer cities) in even lots of equal size and both rich and poor lived along side each other.³ ⁴ In the Greek city, the focus of the city was not dominated by an elect few too whom the entire attention of urban design was given, rather the Greeks laid out cities in even uniform and collective layouts.

      Interestingly Bugh notes that colonies in wild frontier lands tended to have more elongated grid plans than those of the Ionian and Hellenic homelands. This he feels shows a body politic concerned with defences more than civic life. ⁵

      The City of Classical Greece

      The city of today owes many significant features to these cities of the classical era. The Modern City

      has inherited from classical times, many ideas on which our perception of the city is based, as well as many aspects of engineering and technology, ideas of geometry and proportion in city form. In one other sense modern cities have received influence from the classical cities, and this is the physical remains of the Greco-Roman cities which have acted as triggers for many of the advances in the modern age. Thus the Greco-Roman world has been significant in the development of the modern

      city.

      The modern city has also inherited ideas of public space within the city, as well as the idea of

      systematic planning and laws. ª All these ideas were developed in Classical Greek times and have been inherited by the modern world. Although colonization was adopted by Hellenistic and Roman6 empires for very different reasons, this endeavour to build cities, provided for a great amount of Town Planning, and Urban Design. For this reason, it was the Greek Hellenistic and Roman rulers who refined the very ancient tradition of city planning, to an extremely fine art.

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