ABSTRACT
The historic picture book that Camillo Sitte opened in the introduction of his masterpiece explains why he became the founder of romantic town design, and why he would be given credit to the importance of the picturesque in urban design. Carl E. Schorske went even further in his classic study Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture, where he contrasted Sitte with Otto Wagner: “Camillo Sitte and Otto Wagner, the romantic archaist and the rational functionalist, divided between them the un-reconciled components of the Ringstrasse legacy.”2
