Athens / Rome Planning and Structure:
The history and theories of city form traces how the shapes of cities have been generated by the prevailing contemporary social institutions and technologies of the times.
Both ancient Roman cities and ancient Greek cities were similar in that highly symmetrical buildings (based on Platonic geometries -- circle, square, rectangle) were placed onto a complex system of streets. Hence we have the Parthenon, placed on the highest hill in Athens, fed by the meandering Panathenaic Way, which passes through the chaotic agora (market place), defined by colonna…
