10 Interesting Fact About The history of urban planning
10 Interesting Fact About The history of urban planning
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In ancient times, cities were built around the river to facilitate access to water and transportation.
In the Middle Ages, European cities were built with the walls that surround it as a form of protection from enemy attacks.
The concept of modern urban planning first appeared in ancient Egypt, where the city was built in the main road that stretches from east to west and from north to south.
Cities in China in the 5th century BC have very regular and symmetrical city planning with parallel and rectangular streets.
In the 19th century, rapid urbanization occurred in Europe and the United States as a result of the industrial revolution.
The concept of Garden City was introduced by Ebenezer Howard in the early 20th century, which proposed the development of cities that were integrated with nature and had a balanced social life.
In 1929, Plan Voisin proposed the destruction of the Marais region in Paris to be rebuilt with a more organized and efficient modern city planning concept.
Along with the development of cars and private transportation in the 1950s and 1960s, urban sprawl concepts emerged and produced cities spread with wide roads.
In the 1970s, the concept of New Urbanism emerged as a reaction to urban sprawl and proposed the development of a more dense and integrated city development with public transportation.
At present, technology and data analytics are used in city planning to improve efficiency and sustainability, such as the use of smart street lights and more effective waste management.
