Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for two opposing topoi: the peaceful garden - a carefree paradise - the New City - a harmonious community. Utopia has long been sought after by urban architects since the time of Thomas More. Other fictional cities fo[...]
The aim of the study is to analyse and describe in detail one of the most important trends in architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries: the evolution leading from the closed, hermetic spaces of the early cultures and the Middle Ages to the "open space" and transparency of the 19th and 20th/21st c[...]