The document provides a comparative analysis of urban planning in ancient Greek and Roman settlements. It describes some key features of Roman urban planning exemplified by the town of Thamugadi, including its gridiron street layout with main north-south and east-west roads intersecting in the central town square which housed administrative and civic buildings. It also briefly outlines characteristics of urban planning in ancient Greek cities like Miletus, noting they sometimes had irregular organic street patterns in older cities but new cities often featured gridded layouts, and describes some redevelopment works in Miletus' city center and agora during the Roman period.

1. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS GREEK-
ROMAN & MEDIVAL AGE URBAN
PLANNING
URBAN DESIGN HISTORY
PRESENTED BY : SALONI KHANDELWAL
(M.ARCH - URBAN DESIGN)
SEMESTER I
DEPT.OF ARCHITECTURE,MIT

2. ROMAN URBAN SETTLEMENTS : THAMUGADI
• The Etruscan were the early settlers of west-central part of Italy.
• The town of Thamugadi, now Timgad, lay on the northern skirts of Mount Aures, halfway
between Constantine and Biskra and about a hundred miles from the Mediterranean
coast.
• The towns were laid on a grid iron geometry.
• The streets of roman towns were between 5 & 8M wide.
Their width depended upon their importance.
• The two main streets, which ran to the principal gates,
were further widened by colonnades and paved with
superior flagging. All the streets had well-built sewers
beneath them.
• Each town had two main roads. One heading north-south
and the other east-west.
• At the point where these roads met was the town center,
where the administrative center and the forum were
found.
• Two major and central intersected roads : Cardo : North
South, Decomanus : East West The Forum at the
intersection of the two major roads : the central public
space
PRINCIPAL GATES
ADMINISTRATIVE
CENTERS

3. GREEK URBAN SETTLEMENTS : MILETUS
City form were of two types :
• (Old cities) irregular street plans in organic
development
• (New cities) had a grid-iron street plan.
• Hippodamus' city plan probably included the
Temple of Athena, located west of the Stadium.
• The whole of the city center was reshaped,
including the north and south Agora, the
Gymnasium and the Bouleuterion, Stadium
Nymphaeum whereas the north Agora underwent
certain changes: the propylon was demolished.
• Stores were built in zones on the Agora's eastern
side, is among the earliest architectural works of the
Roman period and one of the city's most
characteristic ones.
Plan of the city
Organic pattern
Plan of Agora