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Urban Planning
Also Known As Town Planning, City Planning
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The design of settlements as wholes: streets, blocks, districts and the rules that shape them, practiced from the gridded colonial towns of antiquity through Haussmann's Paris, the garden city movement, and the modernist replanning whose failures, Pruitt-Igoe most famously, taught the discipline humility. Architecture and planning shape each other at every scale above the single building.
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The case that forced modernist planning to reckon with its failures.
New Urbanism is a specific late twentieth century movement within the broader discipline of urban planning.
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A Pattern Language proposes patterns at the scale of regions and towns as much as buildings, and directly informed later New Urbanist and participatory planning practice.
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