The European Town Square as an Ideal Place, or Camillo Sitte Revisited

Lévy, Bertrand

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The European Town Square as an Ideal Place, or Camillo Sitte Revisited

ContributorsLévy, Bertrand

Published inEnvironment, land society – architectonics, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 24-37

Publication date2008

Abstract

The Urban Square is first considered as a place and even a high place of the European town. Criteria established by Camillo Sitte regarding the ideal urban square are then discussed from a morphologic and aesthetic point of view. These criteria are interpreted in the context of more contemporary functions and uses, and Sitte's criteria are either validated or invalidated.

Keywords

Urban square
Ideal square
Place
Form
Functions
Uses
Camillo Sitte

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LÉVY, Bertrand. The European Town Square as an Ideal Place, or Camillo Sitte Revisited. In: Environment, land society – architectonics, 2008, vol. 1, n° 2, p. 24–37.

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PID : unige:18046

Journal ISSN1662-5870

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