URBAN UTOPIAS

AND CITY PLANNING

by Cânâ Bilsel
Arch 312 Principles of City Planning
and Urban Design
Miletus
after the
5th century BC

“Hippodamian Plan”

Hippodamos, known
for the Hippodamian
grid-iron city plans
was born in Miletus
in this period.
Priene (320 BC)
Priene
- Prostas type of houses
Roman Cities

Pompei - 1st Century AD

Campus Romanum

Calleva (Silchester) in Britain

Timgad in North Africa

Ideal City at the Renaissance: Palma Nuova
 Palma Nuova

Ideal City at the Renaissance: Palma Nuova

Venitian City Walls of Lefkoşa / Nicosia in Cyprus
Plan of Barcelona by Idelfonso Cerda (mid 19th century)
The City Shaped according to Cerda Plan:
Aerial photograph of Barcelona
The urban blocks in Barcelona according to Cerda Plan
Barcelona
urban blocks, after
the implementation
of Cerda Plan
 Linear City
(Ciudad lineal)
by
Arturio Soria y Mata,
A proposal for the
extension of Madrid,
1894
The Linear City by A. Sorio y Mata, transversal section and plan
The industrial city
in the 19th century
The “Three Magnets”
Ebenezer Howard
The Garden City of Tomorrow
Ebenezer Howard,
The Garden City of Tomorrow
The Garden City
by Ebenezer Howard
The Garden City
by Ebenezer Howard
Welwyn
Garden City
Welwyn
Garden City
Letchworth Garden City
by Parker and Unwin
La Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier (Lyon - France)
Housing and the factory in the Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier
Siedlungen
in Berlin
(Germany)
Horse shoe
Siedlung at Britz
near Berlin

designed by
Bruno Taut
Broadacre City by Frank Lloyd Wright
Details from
the Broadacre
City
Ludwig Hilberseimer,
Hochhausstadt,
1924
Le Corbusier’s
Comparison
of the urban fabric
and building densities
in
Paris, New York
and Buenos Aires
Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin - Paris
Le Corbusier,
une ville contemporaine de trois millions,
1922
Athens Charter approved by CIAM in 1933,
reedited and published by Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier, The Radiant City
La Ville Radieuse: The Radiant City
 La Ville Radieuse: The Radiant City

La Ville Verte (Green City) by Le Corbusier

Continuous residential blocks
La Ville Verte (Green City) by Le Corbusier
The Linear City

A. Soria y Mata – Linear City (proposed for Madrid in 1882)

The Linear City

M. Ginzburg and Barshch – Green City, 1930

Soviet Union
 OSA Proposals, Magnitogorsk Competition (SovietUnion)
Barshch and Okhitovich, Leonidov, Milyutin (General principles)
I. Leonidov – Workers’ Club/Palace of Culture
Ernst May Proposal, Magnitogorsk Competition
The Linear Industrial City by Le Corbusier
Linear Industrial City by Le Corbusier

and the “Green Industrial Plant”

The 3 Human Settlements and
the Linear Industrial City by Le Corbusier
City Planning and
Urban Utopias after the WWII
Brasilia
Planned byy
Lucio Costa
Le Corbusier’s Master Plan of Chandigarh (1951), the new capital of Punjab
in India, Source: Fondation Le Corbusier
The extension plan for 500.000 people (Fondation Le Corbusier)
Topography model of Chandigarh (Fondation Le Corbusier)
 The
Court House

The Open Hand

The General Secretary

Chandigarh 1951-1965
Capitol buildings by
Le Corbusier
 Berlin, Haupstadt Competition, 1957
Peter and Alison Smithson’s Master Plan proposal
Team X

Peter and Alison Smithson,

Berlin, Haupstadt,
1957
 Team X

Free University Georges

of Berlin, Candilis,
1963 Alexis Josic,
Shadrach
Woods

Frankfurt
am Main,
City Center, Toulouse-le-Mirail
1963 1961
Team X

Candilis, Josic, Woods,

Toulouse-le-Mirail, 1961
Archigram Walking City
Plug-in City,
1964
Yona Friedman, the Spatial city, 1959
Yona Friedman,
Ville Spatiale
(Spatial City)
Super Studio,
Continuous Monument:
An Architectural Model for
Total Urbanization, 1969
Alsterzentrum, Hamburg
Alsterzentrum, Hamburg
Neue Heimat, 1966
 Paris La Defense,
Paris Bobigny,

St Louis, demolition of
Pruit-Igoe Housing, 1971

Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter,

Collage City, 1978
Aldo Rossi
Analogous
City
Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York
The extension of London from 1843 to 1929
Green belt as a planning tool to control urban extension
New Towns
planned and
implemented
After WW II
In Great Britan
Hook New town
Hook New Town
Milton Keynes New Town

3D Image by Helmut Jacoby

Milton Keynes New Town, Reviewed Strategic Plan
Milton Keynes New Town - Phasing
Housing neighborhoods in
Milton Keynes – Statonbury
Paris Metropolitan Planning
“Schéma Directeur de la Région
Parisienne,” 1965
Cergy-Pontoise –
New Town
Ville Nouvelle - Paris
Cergy-Pontoise – Ville Nouvelle - Paris