ABSTRACT
The effects of urban planning are perhaps the greatest – and, at the same time, the most invisible – influences on human life and culture. In the words of Percival Goodman and Paul Goodman, the co-authors of Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life (1947), we hardly realize as we go about the daily round of our lives “that somebody once drew some lines on a piece of paper who might have drawn otherwise” and that “now, as engineer and architect once drew, people have to walk and live.”
