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Utopia, the Origins and Invention of Western Urban Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Germán Solinís
Germán Solinís*
Affiliation:
UNESCO

Abstract

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The particular field of urban design is profoundly influenced by ideas about the ideal city, which have very deep roots in utopian discourse and thought. In tracing the relationship between urban planning and utopia from its origins to the present day, the author attempts to put his finger on what town planners, in trying to organize and control space, have made of utopia. The relationship between utopia and urban design is approached here from the starting-point of two questions. (a) How does the city impart its morphology to utopian discourse? (b) Can urban design be the science of the ideal city?

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 79 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2006

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