ABSTRACT
In the first edition of the journal Der Städtebau (Town Planning), published in 1904, the German-Austrian architects Theodor Goecke and Camillo Sitte described the fundamental aims and methods of the young discipline. Their definition reads like an agenda of today’s goals:
Städtebau is the unification of all technical and creative arts into a great enclosed entity. … Städtebau is a science. Städtebau is a kind of art with specific aims of research, and specific big tasks for practical execution … in which numerous technicians, artists, national economists, hygenicists, social-politicians, civil servants and lawyers are working together … with all inhabitants of our cities participating. (Goecke and Sitte 1904)
