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Nature 441, 30 (4 May 2006) | doi:10.1038/441030a; Published online 3 May 2006

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Science in culture: A sense of civic beauty

Martin Kemp1

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A Renaissance painting from Urbino reveals the ideal city.

There is a feeling in highly developed societies with centralized systems of government that an orderly society and geometrical town planning go hand in hand. This association is not exclusive to Western societies: Inca, Indian and Chinese civic planning has exhibited similar tendencies.

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