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c. 100c. 200Central AmericaGreat 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.
1218Khmer EmpireJayavarman 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.
1743–1760North AmericaPaving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain.
18 September 1790USAThe city of Washington, DC, is founded as the US capital, when President George Washington lays the foundation stone of the Capitol building.
1853FranceThe 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.
1922The 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 1947USAAbraham 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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