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CAMILLO SITTE - PROMOTER OF MODERN TOWN PLANNING THEORY - A CONTRIBUTION TO REE - READING OF "STÄDTEBAU"
Eugen Franković
; Institut za povijest umjetnosti u Zagrebu
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Camillo Sitte (Vienna, 1843-1903), architect, urban planner and writer, author of a book entitled Der Stadtebau (1889), was the most notable urban planning theorist at the turn of the century. Through his critique of city planning in the second half of the nineteenth century, he promoted new ideas essential for the development of modem culture. The author of this paper presents Der Sadtebau by analyzing the various levels of Sitte's thinking through an insight into the process of its self-constitution. In the introduction he oers a brief survey of the reception of Sitte's work, and in the conclusion he concentrates on Sitte's strong influence on the urban development of Zagreb. The role of Sitte's theories, their immediate success and broad influence - as well as their violent disqualifications and long neglect - seem to result from the nature of Sitte's discourse. Although he writes with a strong sense of context and nuance, Sitte does not pay attention to the ephemeral pragmatic aspects of urban planning. His criticism concentrates on the focal points of the urban ambience of his epoch. This is why Sitte's critical procedure, as formulated in concreto, belongs to the theoretical highlights of his time and remains a lasting achievement in the theory of modem planning and architecture. In Zagreb Sitte's influence was at its height from 1892 to 1912-1913, when the Zagreb office of urban planning was headed by Milan Lenuci (Karlovac 1849 - Zagreb 1924). It can be seen in numerous structures refflecting Sitte's type of thinking: the large sweep of Zvonimirova street (perhaps the most impressive example of his influence), the urbanized suburbia scattered along the Zagreb hills, the exceptional park belt in the Lower Town, the dignity of Zagreb's peripheral zones, including the empty space along the river Sava indicating the greatness of an epoch which was also capable of self-restraint.
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153838
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.1994.
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