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Developments in Urban Design since 1850

(according to S.Giedion in 1958)

1856-1867 The Public Squares of Paris - Alphonse Alphand

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1857-1860 Central Park, New York - Frederick Law Olmsted

1882 The Linear City - Arturo Soria y Mata

1889 The Art of Building Cities - Camillo Sitte

1898 Garden Cities of Tomorrow - Ebenezer Howard

1901 The Industrial City - Tony Garnier

1901 Housing Legislation in Holland

1915 Cities in Evolution - Patrick Geddes

1920 Welwyn Garden City, England - Raymond Unwin

1922 Plan Voisin, Paris - Le Corbusier

1927 Weissenhof Housing Project, Stuttgart

1927 Roemerstadt, Frankfort - Ernst May

1928 Dammerstock Housing Project, Karlsruhe - Walter Gropius

1929 Siemenstadt, Berlin - Walter Gropius

1929 Radburn, New Jersey - Henry Wright and Clarence Stein

1929 The Neighbourhood Unit - Clarence Perry

1933 The "Charte D'Athenes" - CIAM 4

1934 Broadacre City - Frank Lloyd Wright

1935 La Ville Radieuse - Le Corbusier

1938 Culture of Cities - Lewis Mumford

1944 The Greater London Plan - Patrick Abercrombie

1945 Saint-Die, Vosges, France - Le Corbusier

1948 Harlow New Town, England - Frederick Gibberd

1948 Chimbote, Peru - P.L.Wiener and J.L.Sert

1951 Chandigargh, Punjab, India - Le Corbusier

1951 The Core of the City - CIAM 8

1952 Vallingby, Sweden - Sven Markelius

1953 Back Bay Center, Boston, Massachusetts - Walter Gropius and others

1956 Alexander Polder, Holland - R.Bakema and Group OPBOUW

1956 Southdale Shopping Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota - Victor Gruen

1956 Lafayette Park, Detroit, Michigan - Mies van der Rohe

1957 Brazilia, Brazil

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