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History of Urban Design

Urban planning is a real and effective instrument of control and regulation of the
transformation and development of the city. Many of the environmental, urban and
social problems that cities suffer from are a consequence of ineffective or inefficient
urban planning.

Since ancient times, urban design has been a key element linked to the evolution of
man itself, and there have been many theories and foundations that the history of
architecture and urban planning has accumulated around the problems of design,
planning and urbanization.

It is known from primary forms of urban design in Greek or Greek-influenced cities

such as Alexandria, founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great and in which, through
the Hippodamian layout or distribution, the design of streets at right angles was
based, creating rectangular blocks. Another of the great contributions in the history
of urban design were made by the Romans, who

They conceived their cities from two axes perpendicular to each other: the Cardum
(way oriented from north to south) and Decumanus (way from east to west); This
continued the line of the checkerboard layout previously imposed by the Greeks.
 However, Roman urban design was substantially rich and contributory, since
criteria such as water and its drainage, the location of public monuments, the layout
and hierarchy of paving and main buildings; they were adding unprecedented
complexity to the city's design; complexity to which was added the enormous size
of Roman cities and their multifunctionality.
In the Middle Ages, the city was understood as a space for the transaction of goods
and communal life and necessary for defense against possible aggressors. The
typical form of medieval cities was the Burg and these were often delimited by walls
that made their spontaneous growth difficult. During this stage of man's social
evolution, city planning did not exist, so the incipient cities of Burgos were ideal
places for the proliferation of filth, epidemics and social evils. The true flowering of
the city and urban culture awakens with the Gothic.

In the 18th century, the "Garden City" project represented a novel advance from the
point of view of design and concern for the urban, since the evils that industrial
society was beginning to create from the city's point of view were thus they
conditioned He motion
planning of the garden cities was founded by Ebenezer Howard ( 1850 1928) .