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also identified and advocates a host of traditional approaches to creating public spaces that had grown out of the town planning traditions of Europe. He illustrates these approaches with examples through sketches and diagrams of numerous neighborhoods (mainly in Italy and
Germany). Sitte believed in an incremental approach to urbanism, formed by the aggregation of many sophisticated site plans within a more general scheme determined by street patterns and other public factors. Building on some of his principles, he follows his criticism of contemporary development on Vienna's RingstraĂźe with proposals to improve the spatial and aesthetic dynamics of some of its major sites.
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is its most important factor, with whole effect being more than the sum of its parts. Sitte contended that many urban planners had neglected to consider the spatial dimensions of urban planning, focusing too much on paper plans; and argued that this approach hindered the efficacy of planning in an
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was familiar to German-speaking architects in the late 19th century. At least five editions were published between 1889 and 1922, including a 1902 French translation. An
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in 1843. As the son of architect Franz Sitte, he was able to work on his father's construction sites during his youth. He was an architect and cultural theoretician whose writings, according to
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Empire and the United States in the years before World War II. Nevertheless, Sitte's ideas made their way into the
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