ABSTRACT
The creation of great civic spaces with strong connections between them was a primary goal of city design from antiquity to the nineteenth century, most famously exemplified in Ancient Greek cities, sixteenth-century Rome of Sixtus V and Domenico Fontana, and nineteenth-century Paris of Napoléon III and Baron Haussmann. The mass production and consumption of cars in the early twentieth century, however, transformed city building as it altered the logic and scale of movement.
