Planned cities were a thing since renaissance and some of them worked quite well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_

Planned cities were a thing since renaissance and some of them worked quite well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_city I've only been to Zamość out of these and it's grown out of the starting plan in last few centuries, but it was operating as designed for a while. > Jan Zamoyski commissioned the Venetian (from Padua) architect Bernardo Morando to design the city, based upon the anthropomorphic concept. Its "head" was to be the Zamoyski Palace, "backbone" Grodzka Street, crossing the Great Market Square from east to west, in the direction of the palace, and with the "arms" embodied by 10 streets intersecting the main streets: Solna Street (north of the Great Market Square) and Bernardo Morando Street (south of the Great Market Square). In these streets, the other squares were placed: Salt Square (Rynek Solny) and Water Square (Rynek Wodny), functioning as the "internal organs" of the city whereas the bastions are the "hands and legs" for self-defence.[13]