“Cities are fundamentally about people, and where people go and where people meet are at the core of what makes a city work. So even more important than buildings in a city are the public spaces in between them. (…) Lively, enjoyable public spaces are the key to plan…
Categorie: nice urban square
A nice urban square, or just an unbuilt piece of ground?
Unbuilt Piece of Ground
“From the artistic point of view a merely unbuilt piece of ground is not yet a city plaza. Aesthetically speaking, a great deal would still have to beaded in embellishment, in meaning, and in character.”
– Camillo Sitte (1889)
Not every unbuild piece of ground in a pedestrian area is (automatically) a…
Old and New Squares
“We are well aware of the effect of an old plaza, but how to produce it under modern conditions is not understood because we are no longer cognizant of the relation between cause and effect in these matters.”
– Camillo Sitte (1889)
Through the last 135 years many great urban designers analysed the qualities of…