Urbanism  

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"Machines for living:" for various critics, including Tom Wolfe, the Pruitt-Igoe housing project illustrated both the essential unlivability of Bauhaus-inspired box architecture, and the hubris of central planning.

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Urbanism is the study of cities - their economic, political, social and cultural environment, and the imprint of all these forces on the built environment. In addition Urbanism is also the practice of creating human communities for living, work, and play; covering the more human aspects of urban planning. Urbanism assumes that there is such an entity as the "urban" with its characteristic high population density, and that it can be clearly distinguished from the "rural".

List of urban planners chronological by initial year of plan.

• 1853 Baron Haussmann - responsible for the broad avenues of Paris
• 1950 Le Corbusier - Chandigarh, India
• 1966 Walt Disney - Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (concept) (Note: While never built in the form Disney intended, Walt Disney World, where EPCOT was planned, houses an amusement park by the same name and is also near the Disney Company-founded town of Celebration, Florida.)

See also

• Landscape urbanism, an urbanism modeled on the disciplines of landscape architecture and ecology
• New urbanism, a response to contemporary problems such as urban sprawl and traffic congestion
• Unitary urbanism, a critique of urbanism as a technology of power by the situationists
• Urban geography
• Urban design
• Urban planning