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Utopia, the Origins and Invention of Western Urban Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Germán Solinís*
Affiliation:
UNESCO

Extract

What are we doing with utopia? The ideas I am going to share with you relate to what urban designers have done with utopia, which is based on the historical relationship that grew up between utopian thinking and the intent to organize and control the arrangement of space and thus manage society in order to ensure its development.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2006

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