<Li> Sitte makes an analysis based on sensitivity aesthetics and is not concerned with the historical circumstances that generated such forms . Urbanism is to be lived today and thus must be judged according to today's needs and aesthetics; </Li> <Li> Criticizes the regular and obsessive order of the new squares, confronting it with the irregularity of the medieval city . "A square should be seen as a room: it should form an enclosed space"; </Li> <Li> Criticizes the isolated placement of churches and monuments, and confronts it with how monuments were formerly presented to the viewer; </Li> <Li> With examples from Italy, Austria and Germany, he defines a square typology, an "enclosed squares' system of the ancient times". He studies from a psychological viewpoint the perception of the proportions between the monuments and its surroundings, opposing the fashion of very wide streets and squares, and the dogma of orthogonality and symmetry; </Li>

Camillo sitte city planning according to artistic principles