Throughout the development of cities, architects imagine their perspective as the ideal city. Modern Architects tend to create the city both as a scientific solution that they think what most convenient solution for a city is. Architects also look at the preference of the person who wants to live in the city, where they also need to think how they will create the living space for the individual. The clash of ideas to create an ideal city is not always the solution.

               Architects throughout history created structures, buildings and landmarks that had to be designed by preference for a person. For instance, in the Renaissance, Cathedrals in Italy were designed by the preference of the Church, specifically for the Pope that the Cathedrals needed to remain as the central structure of the city at that time. When science evolved, architects have also studied the facts and phenomena of how a city can be efficient through its development from the ground up. Architects assume that the ideal city will be based from scientific facts and phenomena of how the city will function in the most efficient way.

               These ideas however, architects wanted to persuade the audience to construct a city from scratch, that would be hard to achieve. In Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter’s Collage City (Rowe and Koetter n.d.), they compared the ideas of architects’ ideal city as the revolutions of societies throughout history that have not succeeded today. For example, Le Corbusier’s ideal plan of a city was comparable to Marx’s ideological plan of creating the perfect society.

Although these ideas seem to look good on paper, their implementation in the real world is extremely difficult to occur. Every city throughout the world is built in its own unique plan, pattern and style and it is next to impossible to shift and change a city to become an ideal city for people to live. Therefore, people adapt to the places that they preferably want to live in.

References

Rowe, Colin, and Fred Koetter. n.d. “Utopia: Decline and Fall?” In Collage City, by Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter.