A Paper on Ideal Cities
A PAPER ON IDEAL CITIES
BY
IBANGA, ANDIKAN NDABUK (119051018)
M.E.D2 (EXECUTIVE)
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, AKOKA, NIGERIA
ADVANCED URBAN DESIGN (ARC 806)
JUNE 2013
CONCEPT
In design the Ideal city refers to a plan for a city that has been conceived in accordance with the dictates of some "rational" or "moral" objective
The "ideal" nature of such a city may encompass the moral, spiritual and juridical qualities of citizenship as well as the ways in which these are realized through urban structures including buildings, street layout, etc. The ground plans of ideal cities are often based on grids (in imitation of Roman town planning) or other geometrical patterns.
The ideal city is often an attempt to deploy Utopian ideals at the local level of urban configuration and living space and amenity rather than at the culture - or civilization-wide level of the classical Utopias
EXAMPLE 1
Antonio di Pietro Averlino (Sforzinda)
The man:
Antonio di Pietro Averlino (1400 – 1469), also, known as Filarete, was a Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor and architectural theorist. He is perhaps best remembered for his design of the ideal city of Sforzinda, the first ideal city plan of the Renaissance.
Antonio di Pietro Averlino was born c. 1400 in Florence where he probably trained as a craftsman. Sources suggest that he worked in Florence under the Italian painter, architect, and biographer Lorenzo Ghiberti, who gave him his more famous name “Filarete” which means “a lover of virtue”. In the mid 15th century, Filarete was expelled from Rome after being accused of attempting to steal the head of John the Baptist and he moved to Venice and then eventually to Milan. There he became a ducal engineer and worked on a variety of architectural projects for the next fifteen years. According to his biographer, Vasari, Filarete died in Rome c. 1469.[1]
Filarete's complete organization of Sforzinda's layout embodied a higher
BY
IBANGA, ANDIKAN NDABUK (119051018)
M.E.D2 (EXECUTIVE)
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, AKOKA, NIGERIA
ADVANCED URBAN DESIGN (ARC 806)
JUNE 2013
CONCEPT
In design the Ideal city refers to a plan for a city that has been conceived in accordance with the dictates of some "rational" or "moral" objective
The "ideal" nature of such a city may encompass the moral, spiritual and juridical qualities of citizenship as well as the ways in which these are realized through urban structures including buildings, street layout, etc. The ground plans of ideal cities are often based on grids (in imitation of Roman town planning) or other geometrical patterns.
The ideal city is often an attempt to deploy Utopian ideals at the local level of urban configuration and living space and amenity rather than at the culture - or civilization-wide level of the classical Utopias
EXAMPLE 1
Antonio di Pietro Averlino (Sforzinda)
The man:
Antonio di Pietro Averlino (1400 – 1469), also, known as Filarete, was a Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor and architectural theorist. He is perhaps best remembered for his design of the ideal city of Sforzinda, the first ideal city plan of the Renaissance.
Antonio di Pietro Averlino was born c. 1400 in Florence where he probably trained as a craftsman. Sources suggest that he worked in Florence under the Italian painter, architect, and biographer Lorenzo Ghiberti, who gave him his more famous name “Filarete” which means “a lover of virtue”. In the mid 15th century, Filarete was expelled from Rome after being accused of attempting to steal the head of John the Baptist and he moved to Venice and then eventually to Milan. There he became a ducal engineer and worked on a variety of architectural projects for the next fifteen years. According to his biographer, Vasari, Filarete died in Rome c. 1469.[1]
Filarete's complete organization of Sforzinda's layout embodied a higher