La renovación urbana en la ciudad ideal renacentista de Leonardo da Vinci

Abstract

During the first decades of the fifteenth century arose in Italy a group of architects-humanists who aspired to develop a new concept of city that break with tradition held during the Middle Age. These new ideas intended unprecedented urban renewal mainly aimed at regulating public spaces. Among the proposals highlights the Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), who produced architectural and urban renewal of an excellent standard that have been forgotten by society studies. In all these studies, emphasizes its proposal citta ideale for its innovative approach to urban renewal should have been a turning point in the urban morphology of cities. An unprecedented revolution that changed the way we understand the concept of city in the Renaissance and in later centuries. All this in a discipline that has never been recognized as such.