Around 1486—after a pestilence that killed half the population in Milan—Leonardo da Vinci turned his thoughts to urban planning problems. Following a typical Renaissance trend, he began to work out an “ideal city” project, which, due to its excessive costs, would remain unfulfilled. Leonardo’s sketches are masterpieces in city planning, an “urban abstraction of the city”, presented by a regular grid.
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