#town planning

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[wiionme]

Plans for Cumbernauld

[its-a-date]

He built tunnels, gardens, fountains, mills and houses, and two whole towns from the ground up, rebuilding Oppenau, which had burned down in 1615, and planning Freudenstadt, a walled new town with hundreds of buildings on streets arranged around a central square – to this day the very epitome of practical, comfortable small-town living.

"The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" - Roland Allen

[scotianostra]

On September 2nd 1854 the pioneer of modern urban sociology, Patrick Geddes, was born in Ballater.

Geddes is regarded as the founding father of town planning. Although he was trained as a biologist, he applied biological knowledge to striving to create an ideal environment for human existence. The author of City Development and Cities in Evolution, Geddes was greatly troubled by the plight of refugees of the war between Armenians and the Ottoman Empire in 1896. His response was to travel to Cyprus, helping the displaced people to resettle there in small agricultural and industrial units.

Read more at the short article on Geddes here http://www.lothianlife.co.uk/2007/02/think-global-act-local/

[scavengedluxury]

New settlement, Ózd, 1975. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[1five1two]

Heerhugowaard, Netherlands.

[geo-graphique]

« En tous points pareils » Detail n°1 - Drawing on paper - 2023 Fabrice Clapiès

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Inside the walls the island rose in a hill and every bit of that hill, up to the Tisroc's palace and the great temple of Tash at the top, was completely covered with buildings – terrace above terrace, street above street, zigzag roads or huge flights of steps bordered with orange trees and lemon trees, roof-gardens, balconies, deep archways, pillared colonnades, spires, battlements, minarets, pinnacles.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy" - C. S. Lewis