![]() ![]() Usually, however, the monarchy answered to the leading religions, often having been appointed “by God” or “by the gods”. ![]() In more medieval contexts, seats of power were often in the hands of either the monarchy or the church. The environment and the people essentially feed off of each other to create the community that exists. Such a phenomenon is referred to as the socio-spatial dialectic, where both a person’s environment and the environment itself work together to inform development. People groups in cities often have a say in how the city, or at least their specific community within a city, develops, usually determined by how they interact with it. This has changed over the course of time, depending on what the city and its residents determine as important. Historically, central cores of cities have been representative of seats of power. The divisions were in the circular pattern, districts moving outward from a central core. One such design was that of the Garden City, a city with a (mostly) circular design, separated by garden strips or terraces that created divisions between districts. Early in the development of urban geography as a field of study, many members of the nobility and those with wealth put design concepts forward for urban environments. ![]()
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