ABSTRACT
To make town plans is one thing, to realize them is another. This is probably an experience that urban planners in all periods have shared. A town planning project is by its very nature a complex, expensive and time-consuming enterprise, in which planning ideas and design aspects may not carry much weight. Many different decision-makers are usually involved, as authorities, politicians, landowners or developers. Moreover, because implementation is a lengthy process, the original plan may be considered passé before it is fully realized, with all the changes and further delays that this means. The planner of an individual building generally has far more opportunity to influence the final result since the project is smaller, its implementation takes less time, and the decision-making is often limited to a single developer.
