With new towns to design that could outlast the centuries, why spend an inordinate number of hours on a text that might have a shelf life of only a few years?
New towns 1946-1968 United Kingdom
Norman architecture 1074-1250
Ottonian architecture 950s-1050s Germany
Palladian architecture 1616-1680 (Jones)
Perpendicular Period c.1350-c.1550
Pombaline style 1755 earthquake-c.1860 Portugal ...
Like Basra, Kufa and Wasit, Ramla was one of the new towns established in the first years of the Arab conquests.
Often, whole new towns were built on formal principles. Early in the 18th century, at the behest of Peter the Great, Italian and French Baroque architects came to Russia to build St Petersburg.
with the implication of gradual growth or decay, and in planning by a preference for asymmetrical layouts that composed into attractive views. Its influence continued into the 20th century, for instance in the arrangement of some post-war New Towns.
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