title: [Leonardo's "Città ideale" (the "satellite town of the Renaissance (author's transl)].
abstract: After the severe plague epidemic of 1484/85 in Milan, Leonardo designed plans for an ideal town with straight, wide streets with drains. These streets were intended for pedestrians only with a corresponding mirror image of subterranean roads for the entire goods traffic and transport of waste. Leonardo's design, thought out in great detail, shows a fascinating boldness in the removal of waste and traffic regulation (already anticipating the one way traffic principle, e.g. in the separate entrances and exits of the communicating stairways) and his ideas on the relieving of the overcrowded towns by creating satellite settlements on the periphery.
mesh_terms: D002958:City Planning / Q000266:history*; D049668:History, 15th Century; D007558:Italy; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D012499:Sanitation; D014506:Urban Renewal
vernacular_title: Leonardos "Città ideale" (die "Sattelitenstadt der Renaissance")