In architecture, it is best to study the city of its construction, planning and function. The city itself is a work of art from the landmarks and objects built around the city such as plazas, churches, and monuments. Therefore, in Rossi’s The Architecture of a City (Rossi 1966), he describes the city as the work of art.

               The cities between the Americas and in Europe looked substantially different. For instance, the planning of the streets in the Americas were grid by grid, whereas in Europe they had a more complicated method, where the streets were branched and were uprooted from the center as the core. But the styles of the houses in the Americas were constructed in the similar fashion as the ones in Europe, such as the English courtyard houses in Northeastern United States.

               Cities are built in their own fashion, therefore cities face their own problems and set of challenges. This all comes down of the elements of the city of how it is built and why does the plan of the city stay as from the past.  In European cities, although they faced many challenges and problems throughout their long-time existence, they try to preserve and maintain their own unique plan. Today, most European cities keep the same street plans as they had them thousands of years ago. Cities are built in a unique fashion that would hardly change the plan and design of a city.

               Cities have their own beauty, from planning the streets and landmarks of a city to how the city will function from now and in the future. Cities are the work of art that architects study how they are kept in the same position as today. Thus, the city describes its own uniqueness from how it is built and   the city’s functionality.

References

Rossi. 1966. “The Architecture of a City .”