THE GREEK CITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3142, 11 February 1911, Page 3

THE GREEK CITIES.

EARLY TOWN PLANNING

Professor R. BTcinfiekl on “The Planning of Hellenistic Cities: ’ — Architecture and the planning of cities went through, in the ancient world, the same two phases through which they hare gone in the modern world. The old cities of Greece, in the age before Alexander the Great, consisted of narrow, winding streets bordered ’by nocr houses. r l he central and important sites- were occupied by .the temples of the gods, the Senate House and. th-c 'I own Hall, the market place, and the. gynasium. The public buildings were .large ' and splendid, the private houses were shelters tor the night.' - II The. most- striking feature or a W'-'ll-'planned modern t-uwn—the- dpeii spaces with lawiis and trees and flowers., and the private gardens—were- almost unknown in ,Greece, and, indeed, they are still comparatively rare in the cities of the Continent, the limited space within th.e fortifications leaving, little room for such luxuries. We try to mix town and country : the Greek idea was to produce a. well-.pkmnqd and sclfeomidete township, enclosed by a wall and “set in the midst of fields and woods. ‘ ” 1 “