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About Architecture
—Winston Churchill Historic buildings often tell their own story and provide a place with a heritage that asks the visitor to find out more. While architecture used to be limited by the styles and tastes of the area it was built in and even more the locally available material, the widespread adoption of concrete, glass and steel as well as an international exchange of architectural ideas have led to a new "global" style that is loved and hated in almost equal measure. Large-scale urban planning has existed since ancient times; theRoman EmpireandImperial Chinapractised it extensively andAncient Egypthad pre-planned settlements built to strict specs.PrieneinAncient Greecehas been called the first orthogonal-grid planned city, about 350 BCE, thoughMohenjo-daroin what is now Pakistan had a gri
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