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| URBAN VISIONS | The idea of the city through Utopias and the Symbolic Order
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From the first human settlements worldwide
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and the vision for the cities,
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to the first rennaisance urban designs
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and architectural sketches
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The modern city
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and the post-modernism movement
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We perceive the city from above, and we create it, by designing life.