It was in this Tuscan town that Renaissance town-planning concepts were first put into practice after Pope Pius II decided, in 1459, to transform the look of his birthplace. He chose the architect ...

Renaissance writers attempted to expand man's freedom in the ideal commonwealth ... Max Patrick, The Quest for Utopia: An Anthology of Imaginary Societies (New York 1952), p8. 2 Lewis Mumford, "Utopia ...

But it wasn’t only in the Renaissance that the perfect model of human settlement was being sought ... Original ‘Garden City’ concept, designed by Ebenezer Howard, 1902, published in ‘The Garden City ...