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town planning - events| c. 100–c. 200 | Central America | Great building projects are carried out in the pre-Toltec city of Teotihuacán in the Mexican Basin. A great central avenue is laid out, now known as the Street of the Dead. The Temple of the Sun is also completed, dominating the Street of the Dead; at 65 m/216 ft, it is the highest pyramid in Mexico. Another slightly smaller pyramid, to the Moon, is also constructed. Twenty further temples line the avenue. | | 1218 | Khmer Empire | Jayavarman VII of the Khmer Empire rebuilds and walls the city of Angkor Thom (in modern Cambodia), the temple of Bayon being the greatest of his buildings. | | 1743–1760 | North America | Paving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain. | | 18 September 1790 | USA | The city of Washington, DC, is founded as the US capital, when President George Washington lays the foundation stone of the Capitol building. | | 1853 | France | The French architect Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussmann becomes Prefect of the Seine Department and begins reconstruction of Paris, France, using long wide avenues that converge on focal points. He begins with the Bois de Boulogne. | | 1922 | | The Swiss architect Le Corbusier (pseudonym of Charles Edouard Jeanneret) designs his project Ville Contemporaine, a total plan for a city built on rigorously logical principles. | | October 1947 | USA | Abraham Levitt & Sons builds Levittown on Long Island, New York, for war veterans; this starts the trend towards mass suburbanization in the USA. |
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