Transformation geometry. Leonardo da Vinci's urban proposal for Milan

Abstract

In 1493, Leonardo da Vinci proposed an ambitious plan for the transformation of Milan, consisting of the construction of ten new cities in order to solve overcrowding and insalubrity problems at the Lombard capital. With this project, which links urban growth dynamics with interior reorganization processes, Leonardo achieved a synthesis of a long search between the utopian of the new planned ideal city and the pragmatism of the renovation of the medieval cores within the values from the humanistic culture of the Renaissance. This article relates the singular strategy of the urban transformation proposed by Leonardo for Milan with his studies about formal structures and formation processes in territory. These investigations, about the permanency and change, finally led to the development of a transformation geometry currently known as topology.

Keywords

• geometría
• transformación
• leonardo da vinci
• milán