Hippodamus of Miletus ( or Hippodamos, Greek: Ἱππόδαμος) (498 BC — 408 BC) was an ancient Greek Architect, Urban Planner, Physician, Mathematician, Meteorologist and Philosopher and is considered to be the “father” of urban planning, the namesake of Hippodamian plan of city layouts (grid plan). Miletus (mī lē' təs ( Ancient Greek: Μίλητος literally Transliterated Milētos, Latin Miletus) was an Ancient Hippodamus of Miletus ( or Hippodamos Greek Ἱππόδαμος (498 BC &mdash 408 BC was an ancient Greek Architect Urban Planner Physician Mathematician Meteorologist The grid plan or gridiron plan is a type of City plan in which Streets run at right angles to each other forming a grid. He was born in Miletus and lived during the 5th century BC, on the spring of the Ancient Greece classical epoch. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca His father was Hevrifontas.
His plans of Greek cities were characterised by order and regularity in contrast to the more intricacy and confusion common to cities of that period, even Athens. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's He is seen as the originator of the idea that a town plan might formally embody and clarify a rational social order.
He is referred into the works of Aristotle, Stovaious, Strabon, Hesichios, Fotios, and Theano. Aristotle (Greek Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC was a Greek philosopher a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher.
According to Aristotle (in Politics), Hippodamos was a pioneer of urban planning and he devised an ideal city to be inhabited by 10,000 men[1][1] (free male citizens), while the overall population including the correspondent women, children and slaves would reach 50,000 people. Aristotle (Greek Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC was a Greek philosopher a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status He studied the functional problems of cities and linked them to the state administration system. As a result he divided the citizens into three classess (soldiers, artisans and 'husbandmen'), with the land also divided into three (sacred, public and private).
He also evidently had a reputation as a lover of attention. According to Aristotle's description in Politics, "Some people thought he carried things too far, indeed, with his long hair, expensive ornaments, and the same cheap warm clothing worn winter and summer. Aristotle (Greek Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC was a Greek philosopher a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions "
For Pericles he planned the arrangement of the harbour-town Peiraeus at Athens in the middle of the fifth century BC. Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (c 495 – 429 BC Greek:, meaning "surrounded by glory" was a prominent and influential Statesman, orator Piraeus (pɪˈræʊs Πειραιάς, piɾeˈas Πειραιεύς, piɾeˈefs is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. When the Athenians founded Thurii in Italy in 443 BC he accompanied the colony as architect - although he was not actually an architect in the sense of a building designer. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Thurii &ndash Greek:, called also by some Latin writers and by Ptolemy, Thurium ( Ptol Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest He is credited with, in 408 BC, the building of the new city of Rhodes, however as he was involved in 479 BC with helping the reconstruction of Miletus he would have been very old when this project took place. Rhodes (Ρόδος Ródos, ˈɾo̞ðo̞s Rodi ردوس Rodos; Ladino: Rodi or Rodes) is a Greek island
His “diamond” grid plans that he invented (and later named after him) consisted of series of broad, straight streets, cutting one another at forty-five and one hundred thirty-five degree angles. In Miletus we can find the prototype plan of Hippodamos. What is most impressive in his plan is wide central area, which was kept unsettled according to his macro-scale urban prediction/estimation and in time evolved to the “agora”, the center of both the city and the society. The Agora was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek city-states
The “Urban Planning Study for Peiraeus” (451 BC), which is considered to be a work of Hippodamus, formed the planning standards of that era and was used in many cities of the classical epoch. Piraeus (pɪˈræʊs Πειραιάς, piɾeˈas Πειραιεύς, piɾeˈefs is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a According to this study, neighborhoods of 240 square meter blocks were constructed were small groups of 2-floor houses were built. The houses were lined up with walls separating them while the main facets were towards the south. The same study uses polynomial formulas for the plumping infrastructure manufacture.
From Hippodamus came the earliest notions of patent law. Hippodamus proposed that society should reward those individuals who create things useful for society. Aristotle criticized the practical utilitarian approach of Hippodamus and implicated the inherent tension in rewarding individuals for doing good; i. Aristotle (Greek Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC was a Greek philosopher a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. e. that by rewarding individuals for doing good, the individuals will do good for the reward over the benefit of the state. The state could actually suffer because of the allure of individual rewards, since individuals may propose notions that weaken the state. Aristotle essentially foreshadowed the inherent tension between private rewards for social benefits--the potential diversion between individual and societal interests. Aristotle (Greek Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC was a Greek philosopher a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Hippodamus does not seem to have been involved in politics, but several writings attributed to him dealt with issues of the state, including «Περί Πολιτείας», «Περί Ευδαιμονίας», «Πυθαγορίζουσαι Θεωρίαι» (titles difficult to translate into English. )
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Reeve, C. D. C. (1998), Aristotle's Politics. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing. This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
Robert Patrick Merges & John Fitzgerald Duffy, Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials (3d ed. 2002).