- Unit 4. Urbanism and Art
- Getting Started
  - What Are We Learning?
  - Observe and Think
  - Map Your Mind
- Urbanism and Architecture
  - The Greek City
    - Urbanism
    - Housing
    - The Acropolis & Agora of Athens
  - Greek Architecture
    - Parthenon
  - The Roman City
    - Urbanism
    - Housing
    - Urbs Roma
  - Roman Architecture
    - The Colosseum
- Sculpture and Painting
  - Greek Sculpture
  - Roman Sculpture
  - Greek and Roman Painting
- Self-Evaluation Quiz
- Complementary Activities
  - The Greek and Latin Roots of English
  - One Myth, One Song
  - Games, Comics and Stuff
- References

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# Urbanism

We have already spoken of the Hippodamian plan, which you can see in the first picture. Observe the plans of a Roman city and a Roman camp (2nd and 3rd pictures). Do you think that they are similar?

Many new towns or new parts of towns in the history of Western Civilization have been planned according to these models, as you can see in picture of the Eixample de Barcelona.

Could you name other cities with a similar shape?

Plan of Piraeus |  | Plan of Pompei
Plan of the Roman camp of Haltern |  | Plan of the "extension" of Barcelona

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