City Planners should be artists

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DNG,

City planners and architects don't simply do buildings; they deal with public spaces, zoning, traffic patterns, etc. The history of thought on that often has included theories that the aesthetics of such efforts can affect how they function in fact.

Giorgio

 

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I've been in the City Planning biz since the late 1970s. My observations: most people in this field rarely do any actual planning. Mainly, we work on permits. Architects, engineers and lawyers often do more planning than us planners. In the 30+ years I've been doing this, I've had an impact on the built environment in only a handful of projects. <end of rant>

And there are only a few city planners with a famous name compared to all the famous architects we know.

Only Haussmann in Paris and Otto Wagner in Vienna come to my mind (and probably Nero in Rome 😎).