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The Art of Building Cities: City Building According to Its Artistic Fundamentals

The Art of Building Cities: City Building According to Its Artistic Fundamentals

Sitte, Camillo
Stewart, Charles T.

Paperback

General ArchitectureArchitecture History

ISBN10: 1773239783
ISBN13: 9781773239781
Publisher: Important Books
Published: Jan 20 2023
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Camillo Sitte (1843-1903) was a noted Austrian architect, painter and theoretician who exercised great influence on the development of urban planning in Europe and the United States. The publication at Vienna in May 1889 of Der Stadtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsatzen (The Art of Building Cities) began a new era in Germanic city planning. Sitte strongly criticized the current emphasis on broad, straight boulevards, public squares arranged primarily for the convenience of traffic, and efforts to strip major public or religious landmarks of adjoining smaller structures regarded as encumbering such monuments of the past. Sitte proposed instead to follow what he believed to be the design objectives of those whose streets and buildings shaped medieval cities. He advocated curving or irregular street alignments to provide ever-changing vistas. He called for T-intersections to reduce the number of possible conflicts among streams of moving traffic. He pointed out the advantages of what came to be know as turbine squares--civic spaces served by streets entering in such a way as to resemble a pin-wheel in plan. His teachings became widely accepted in Austria, Germany, and Scandinavia, and in less than a decade his style of urban design came to be accepted as the norm in those countries.

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