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Introduction: The DNA of the Pre-Industrial City

• Perspective and Vista: Inspired by painters, architects like Leon Battista Alberti and later, Pope Sixtus V in Rome, redesigned cities to create long, straight vistas terminating in obelisks or domes (like St. Peter’s Basilica). This was the birth of the "Grand Avenue."
• The Ideal City: Theorists designed star-shaped cities ("Star Forts" or Trace Italienne) designed to withstand cannon fire. The geometry was aesthetic and defensive simultaneously.
• Baroque Grandeur: Versailles is the ultimate expression of pre-industrial planning—a city/palace where nature was completely subjugated to the ruler’s geometry. This influenced the planning of Washington D.C. and Paris centuries later.

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