Considering all the readings list below (on Athens through the Renaissance), describe some of the principle differences and similarities between these urban typologies. Use specific squares, roads or building as examples.
Read:
- Athens
A.E.J. Morris, History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolution, pp55-70
Edmund N. Bacon, Design of Cities, pp84-85,
- Rome
Morris on Rome
Bacon, pp92-105
- Medieval cities
Bacon, pp106-127
Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History pp69-75, 111-113, 159-192
- Renaissance
Kostof, pp209-248, Bacon pp130-161