Urban planning has a long history, stretching back to Ancient Greece and even Mesopotamia. Many centuries later, Europe finally caught up with the idea when Genoa developed the Strade Nuove and the Palazzi dei Rolli—the “new streets” and “Rolli palaces”—in the late 1500s.
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Source: Phys.org