Nizam al-Mulk
Nizam al-Mulk , c.1018-92, vizier (1063-92) under two Seljuk (see Turks ) sultans. Of Persian descent, he was early educated in administration, serving the Ghaznavids sultans. By 1059 he was chief administrator of Khorasan; in 1063 the Seljuks made him their vizier. Nizam al-Mulk remained in that position throughout the reigns of Alp Arslan and Malikshah . His power peaked under the latter, when he wrote the extensive treatise entitled Siyasat-nameh, or "Book of Government." A devout Sunni Muslim, Nizam al-Mulk also founded a number of theological schools. He was assassinated in 1092.
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The conservative critique of social engineering.
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...systematic city planner, the eccentric Hippodamus of Miletus, who formulated a detailed...reserves his harshest criticism for Hippodamus's advocacy of a law honoring those...political change will surely undermine. Hippodamus characteristically divided everything...
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Street savvy Should streets connect or protect? A 2,500-year-old argument may finally reach a solution
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 10/16/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...In 450 B.C., the Greek architect Hippodamus designed the first city ever laid out...neighborhood." THROWN FOR A LOOP At first, Hippodamus' grid was a colossal hit. The Greeks...Urbanists say it's time to return to Hippodamus' grid. "We'll never go back to...
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Greek style architecture found in ancient Iranian City
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/26/2008; 395 words
; ...archaeological sites of the city remain. "The design is loaned from Hippodamus style of urban planning during a series of armed conflicts...Asadi, archeologist and expert on the archeology of Istakhr. Hippodamus (498 BC - 408 BC) was an ancient Greek architect and urban...
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Gun control and the regulation of fundamental rights.
Magazine article from: Criminal Justice Ethics; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...derivative. Aristotle drives home the point in his critique of Hippodamus. His comments deserve careful attention. Aristotle attacks...without diminishing citizenship for those disabled: The city of Hippodamus was composed of 10,000 citizens divided into three parts...
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Structures inspired by ancient Greek architecture found in Iran
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/2/2008; 408 words
; ...Sassanid period (226-651 CE). "The design is loaned from Hippodamus' style of urban planning during a series of armed conflicts...Asadi, archeologist and expert on the archeology of Istakhr. Hippodamus (498 BC - 408 BC) was an ancient Greek architect and urban...
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Search for utopia: planners are constantly looking for ways to design our cities that will banish their social evils.
Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder; 3/1/1996; 700+ words
; ...main roads. The first name that crops up in this field is Hippodamus of Miletus, known as the father of town planning. Three...emphasized geometry in his designs. The Romans were fans of Hippodamus' ideas and built all their communities along a grid pattern...
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Aristotle's science of the best regime. (response to Robert C. Bartlett, American Political Science Review, vol. 88, p. 143, 1994)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...location, i.e., to chance" (p. 146), he does not similarly point out that every defect in the plans of Socrates, Hippodamus, and Phaleas that Aristotle discusses is traceable to a failure to understand the limits of reason. Nor does he mention...
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Book reviews: Ideal Cities: Utopian visions of an ideal home
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 3/24/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...castle in the air: the original "cloud cuckoo land". One of the real- life figures satirised here is the town planner Hippodamus, whose "ideal cities" included Piraeus. Visitors to the chaotic modern suburb of Athens are apt to share Aristophanes...
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Been waiting long? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 8/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...many U.S. towns? THE first street grid systems in history were those built by the ancient Greek architect and philosopher Hippodamus of Miletus who, in the 5th century BC, developed his system of town planning in parts of Greece. A particularly fine example...
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Pouring oil on troubled Turkish waters.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...relief as fewer tankers pass through the city's treacherous waters. IT'S A FACT Town planning was invented by the Greek, Hippodamus, who redesigned his city of Miletus, after Persians destroyed it. Source: The Learning Kingdom
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Hippodamus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hippodamus , fl. 5th cent. BC, Greek architect, b. Miletus. He was the first to plan cities according to geometric layouts. For Pericles...
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Hippodamus of Miletus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Hippodamus of Miletus ( fl. c. 500–440 BC). Greek architect and town-planner, he proposed that the layout of a town could...
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Milesian plan
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Milesian plan. Town laid out on a regular grid-iron plan, derived from the Greek colonial city of Miletus, and promoted by Hippodamus , who only publicized rather than invented it. Bibliography Wyoming (1962)
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Miletus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Miletus. See Hippodamus and Isidorus .
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City Planning
Book article from: Mathematics
...along trade routes that linked cities. In the fifth century b.c.e., the "Father of Town Planning," Greek architect Hippodamus of Miletus, designed towns in a geometric pattern that was not only functional but also had aesthetic balance. Likewise...
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