NEOCLASSICAL CITY Planning

NEOCLASSICAL CITY
PLANNING
BY
AR. SABRINA ROHMAN
NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
Neoclassical buildings have few
defining characteristics:
•Clean, elegant lines
•Uncluttered appearance
•Free standing columns
•Massive buildings
• Columns were used to carry the
weight of the building's structure.
But later they became used as a
graphical element.
• Roof is usually flat and horizontal
and often is visible from the
ground.
• Building's facade is flat and long.
Often having a screen of free-
standing columns.. .
• Decorations were reduced to a
minimum on outside.
• There were often gardens around
buildings completed in geometric
patterns.
NEOCLASSICAL PLANNING
Characteristics of
Neoclassical Planning
• Clean lines
• Geometrical pattern
• Uncluttered appearance
• Monumental buildings
Karlsruhe, Germany City of Bath , 1799

NEOCLASSICAL PLANNING : EDINBURGH
Edinburgh, 1581 Edinburgh, 1742
Edinburgh, 1828
Edinburgh, 1767
ATHENS ANCIENT PLANNING
• Situated in southern Europe,
Athens laid the foundations of
western civilization
• 5th century BC
• Athens grew from its focal
point, the Acropolis, which
became the ceremonial center
of the city-state, decked with
temples including the
Parthenon.
• It had an organic plan.
• Agora was the center of
Athenian life.
• Laid out in the 6th century B.C.,
northwest of the Acropolis, it
was a square lined by public
buildings, which served Athens'
needs for commerce and politics
• The streets of Athens as narrow Ancient Plan of Athens
and tortuous, unpaved,
unlighted, and more like a chaos
of mud and sewage than even
the usual Greek road.
ATHENS ANCIENT PLANNING
• The placement of
buildings were decided on
natural factors such as the
morphology of the land
• For eg. The theatres were
generally built around a
slope to provide natural
seating.
• The Agora was built over
a flat surface.
• The houses were
generally placed along the
southern slope and part
of Acropolis facing the
sea.
• Greek cities did not follow
a single pattern. Cities
growing slowly from old
villages often had an
irregular, organic form, Painting depicting the Turkish invasion of Athens
adapting gradually to the
accidents of topography
and history.
ATHENS NEOCLASSICAL
PLANNING
• All the new city plans of Athens
centered on the future royal
palace
• Their development can be
grouped in four distinctive
phases. The first was the
Schaubert- Kleanthes plan.
• It called for an outright
destruction of the old city, the
preservation of the archeological
areas and the construction of the The New Plan of the city designed by Stamatis Kleanthis and Eduard Schaubert
new city, centered on the royal
palace.
• The second was the Schinkel’s
plan for the building of the royal
palace on the Acropolis.
• According to Schikel’s plan, the
Parthenon, and the whole
ensemble of the Acropolis hill
would actually become a garden
of the royal palace.
ATHENS NEOCLASSICAL
PLANNING
• The third phase was
represented by the
intervention of the royal
Bavarian architect, Leo von
Klenze, who saved the old city,
and suggested a new place for
the royal palace, on the
eastern slopes of the
Acropolis, where the ancient
Athenian cemetery
Kerameikos was located.
• The fourth phase removed the
royal palace from the location
where Klenze had put it and
moved it to the far Western
The final version of the Plan for the City of the Athens
outskirts of the city.
• In this way, the palace faced
the back side of the Acropolis.
This is where the palace was
eventually built, on an
exceptionally high platform
overlooking the whole city.
MOSCOW’S NEOCLASSICAL REPLICA CITY
• Moscow is making an entirely new city based on European neoclassical architecture - the
Laikovo development.
• Built 12km southwest of the Moscow Ring Road, Laikovo will be a 30,000-resident satellite city
for Moscow.
• Designers Urban Group are planning a canal dug from scratch, an artificial island, and over a
million square meters of apartments, bridges and embankments in a neoclassical style, even
the appearance of the houses.
• While they are brought together by neoclassicism, each of the apartment blocks and houses
will have a unique façade design, inspired (according to the developers) by the architecture of
Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris, Bruges and Venice.
• A bold, neoclassical theme centered canal
and nineteen new bridges across it.
• In terms of the numbers, Laikovo will add 62
apartment blocks of 4 to 12 storeys to
Moscow’s housing stock.
• 111 townhouses provide the neoclassical
touch, and the residents will have the usual
array of services for new developments,
including schools, a hospital, a fire station,
and even a farmers’ market.
• Work is already underway on Laikovo, with a
tentative date of autumn 2018 for the first
phase of the development. The whole
project will be ready by the third quarter of
2023.

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