CHAPTER III.
GREEK TOWN-PLANNING: FIRST EFFORTS Greek town-planning began in the great age of Greece, the fifth century B.C.But that age had scant sympathy for such a movement, and its beginnings were crude and narrow.

Before the middle of the century the use of the processional highway had established itself in Greece.
Rather later, a real system of town-planning, based on streets that crossed at right angles, became known and practised.

Later still, in the early fourth century, the growing care for town-life produced town by-laws and special magistrates to execute them.

In some form or other, town-planning had now taken root in the Greek world.
The two chief cities of Greece failed, indeed, to welcome the new movement.

Both Athens, the city which by itself means Greece to most of us, and Sparta, the rival of Athens, remained wholly untouched by it.