From townscape to skyscape: in an edited extract from a lecture due to be given to mark the 75th anniversary of the University of Sao Paulo later this month, Robert Tavernor from the University of Bath analyzes the future of London's distinctive skyline.(Theory)

From: The Architectural Review | Date: March 1, 2004 | Copyright information

Urban design as art

The Viennese architect and planner, Camillo Sitte, was the first modern to describe urban planning as essentially an art. In City Planning according to Artistic Principles (1889) he articulated his admiration for the civic and artistic character of pre-industrial European towns and cities rather than the relentless straight-edged, mid-nineteenth century Boulevards that Baron Haussmann sliced through medieval Paris. Sitte argued that the intuitive crea...

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