14 lugl 1867 anni - 1st 'Urbanisation’ term (Enlightenment Europe)

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During the Enlightenment period, rulers often embarked on ambitious attempts at redesigning their capital cities as a showpiece for the grandeur of the nation. Disasters were often a major catalyst for planned reconstruction.

Improvements were made in hygiene and fire safety with wider streets, stone construction and access to the river.

A Catalan engineer Ildefons Cerdà inventing the term ‘urbanisation’ and his approach was codified in his General Theory of Urbanisation (1867)

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