Architects plan what the city will intend in society. Cities can be made in very different shapes and sizes, but most of the cities have a meaning of why they erected for a certain type of community. Architects and critics such as Rossi, Le Corbusier and others plan the cities of how they will function through typology.

               Cities were purposefully built by the government in the past to intend more into the governing scheme of the city. However more architects start to focus more on the individual aspect of the design of architecture, where in Rossi’s Analogous City panel states that “Architects, engineers are beginning to take their hands off the city fills one satisfaction as a citizen”. (Rossi 1976) This points out that the city is being liberated from the chains of the government, therefore architects can plan and scale that would fit the individual, rather than the government.

               Architects in the Industrial Revolution start to think and design more of living inside of a machine and people start to feel more closed. Architects looked at a different approach with typology. They plan the cities to work as back from the pre industrial ages (Vidler 1977), where the architects try to design the cities in three different typologies. Architects tend to bond the city with nature that would liberate the city from being enclosed by the machines and industry.

               Architects tend to create a bigger meaning for a city, no matter how large it is and how it behaves. Architects prefer a more liberated city, where the individual chooses of how the city will look like. The city is built to break the chains of what is being trapped and bond with the people and nature that gives a certain future for the ideal city.

References

Rossi. 1976. “The Analogous City .”

Vidler, Anthony. 1977. “Third Typology.”