SOSC 2730 Study Guide - Military Engineering, Mechanical Efficiency, Counting House

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The most original suggestions in planning, those for separating traffic streets from pedestrian ways, and decentralizing overgrown cities into smaller units of 30,000 people, likewise came from a genius who also practiced military engineering: leonardo da vinci. The bias of the military engineer was visible in both plans and the methods. One that sought to clear the ground of human households, shops, neighborhoods, churches, treasured memorials, the basis of a whole tissue of habits and social relations; so as to make a clean beginning on his own inflexible mathematical lines. The scheme of central place, circles or open squares, dominated by monuments, flanked symmetrically by public buildings, with avenues spreading out from such centers, profoundly altered every dimension of building. Unlike the medieval time, which one must slowly walk through to appreciate its never ending transformations of mass and silhouette, its intricate and surprising details, one can take in a baroque town almost at a glance.

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