page_title: Ideal city
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Ideal city / Examples
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Plan der Idealstadt Sforzinda, 1457
context_page_description: An ideal city is the concept of a plan for a city that has been conceived in accordance with a particular rational or moral objective.
context_section_description: Examples of the ideal cities include Filarete's "Sforzinda", a description of which was included in Trattato di architettura (c. 1465).  The city of Sforzinda was laid out within an eight-pointed star inscribed within a circular moat.  Further examples may have been intended to have been read into the so-called "Urbino" and "Baltimore" panels (second half of the fifteenth century), which show classically influenced architecture disposed in logically planned piazzas. 
  The cities of Palmanova and Nicosia, whose Venetian Fortesses were built in the 1590s by the Venetian Republic, are considered to be practical examples of the concept of the ideal city. Another notable example of the concept is Zamość in eastern Poland, founded in the late 16th century and modelled by the Italian architect Bernardo Morando.
  James Oglethorpe synthesized Classical and Renaissance concepts of the ideal city with new Enlightenment ideals of scientific planning, harmony in design, and social equality in his plan for the Province of Carolina. The physical design component of the famous Oglethorpe Plan remains preserved in the Savannah Historic District.
  Late nineteenth-century examples of the ideal city include the Garden city movement of Sir Ebenezer Howard, realised at Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City in England. Poundbury, Prince Charles' architectural vision established in Dorset, is among the most recent examples of ideal city planning.
  Built in 1950s Nowa Huta in Kraków, Poland, serves as an unfinished example of a Utopian ideal city.
caption: Plan of Sforzinda, Filarete, c. 1465
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