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What Are The Characteristics of An Ancient Cities?

Ancient cities typically had defensive walls and a central citadel used for religious and government functions. Medieval and Renaissance cities often developed organically with narrow streets leading to a central square and buildings, though some new towns used grids. City walls expanded as populations grew. During the Renaissance, urban planning treated cities as architectural works with orderly public spaces. Modern cities saw millions migrate to factories and new technologies transform infrastructure like skyscrapers and transportation. Proposed urban models included linear cities running parallel to rivers and garden cities as self-contained, greenbelt-surrounded communities. The City Beautiful movement aimed to introduce beautification and monuments to promote social harmony.

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What Are The Characteristics of An Ancient Cities?

Ancient cities typically had defensive walls and a central citadel used for religious and government functions. Medieval and Renaissance cities often developed organically with narrow streets leading to a central square and buildings, though some new towns used grids. City walls expanded as populations grew. During the Renaissance, urban planning treated cities as architectural works with orderly public spaces. Modern cities saw millions migrate to factories and new technologies transform infrastructure like skyscrapers and transportation. Proposed urban models included linear cities running parallel to rivers and garden cities as self-contained, greenbelt-surrounded communities. The City Beautiful movement aimed to introduce beautification and monuments to promote social harmony.

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What are the characteristics of an ancient cities?

Two typical features of the ancient city are the wall and the citadel: the wall for defence in
regions periodically swept by conquering armies, and the citadel -- a large, elevated precinct
within the city -- devoted to religious and state functions.


What factors are the developments contributed to a design of medieval and renaissance
cities?
o We usually associate medieval cities with narrow winding streets converging on a
market square with a cathedral and city hall. Many cities of this period display this
pattern, the product of thousands of incremental additions to the urban fabric.
However, new towns seeded throughout undeveloped regions of Europe were based
upon the familiar grid. In either case, large encircling walls were built for defence
against marauding armies; new walls enclosing more land were built as the city
expanded and outgrew its former container.
o During the Renaissance, architects began to systematically study the shaping of urban
space, as though the city itself were a piece of architecture that could be given an
aesthetically pleasing and functional order. Many of the great public spaces of Rome
and other Italian cities date from this era. Parts of old cities were rebuilt to create
elegant squares, long street vistas, and symmetrical building arrangements. Responding
to advances in firearms during the fifteenth century, new city walls were designed with
large earthworks to deflect artillery, and star-shaped points to provide defenders with
sweeping lines of fire. Spanish colonial cities in the New World were built according to
rules codified in the Laws of the Indies of 1573, specifying an orderly grid of streets with
a central plaza, defensive wall, and uniform building style.

Factors and development of design of modern cities?
o Millions of rural dwellers no longer needed on farms flocked to the cities, where new
factories churned out products for the new markets made accessible by railroads and
steamships
o Technological innovations poured forth, many with profound impacts on urban form.
o The central business district of the city underwent a radical transformation with the
development of the skyscraper.

What is linear city?
An urban plan for an elongated formation. The city would consist of a series of functionally
specialized parallel sectors. Generally, the city would run parallel to a river and be built so that
the dominant wind would blow from the residential areas to the industrial strip.
What is garden city
Garden cities were intended to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by
"greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry and agriculture.
The garden city would be self-sufficient and when it reached full population, another garden
city would be developed nearby. Howard envisaged a cluster of several garden cities
as satellites of a central city of 50,000 people, linked by road and rail.
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What is city beautiful movement?
A reform philosophy of urban planning flourished during late 19
th
and 20
th
centuries with the
intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities.
Advocates of the philosophy believed that such beautification could promote a harmonious
social order that would increase the quality life.
The particular architectural style of the movement borrowed mainly from the
contemporary Beaux-Arts and neoclassical architectures, which emphasized the necessity of
order, dignity, and harmony.

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