TY - JOUR AU - Steÿn, Das PY - 2018/12/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - From the editor JF - Town and Regional Planning JA - trp VL - 73 IS - 0 SE - Editorial DO - 10.38140/trp.v73i0.3849 UR - https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/trp/article/view/3849 SP - i-v AB - <p>Urban planning developed&nbsp;alongside the urbanization of&nbsp;mankind. The oldest written&nbsp;reference to urban planning&nbsp;is by the Greek Hippodamus&nbsp;(fifth century B.C.); unfortunately,&nbsp;no copy has been preserved;&nbsp;we only know about it through&nbsp;Aristotle’s writings. The next&nbsp;known reference work is the&nbsp;Roman architect Vitruvius’s&nbsp;De Architectura, a treatise in ten&nbsp;ancient volumes on Greek and&nbsp;Roman architecture, translated&nbsp;as The ten books on&nbsp; architecture.&nbsp;It dates to about 28 B.C. and&nbsp;one of those volumes is about&nbsp;the origin and layout of cities.&nbsp;</p> ER -