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Camillo Sitte

1843 - 1903

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Camillo Sitte (17 April 1843 – 16 November 1903) was an Austrian architect, painter and urban theorist whose work influenced urban planning and land use regulation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Camillo Sitte has received more than 118,547 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Camillo Sitte is the 129th most popular architect (down from 119th in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from Austria (down from 294th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Architect.

Camillo Sitte is most famous for his theory of town planning, which he published in his book "City Planning According to Artistic Principles" in 1866. He was a proponent of the idea that a city should be built with a hierarchy of streets, squares, and buildings, with the cathedral at the center.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Camillo Sitte ranks 129 out of 518. Before him are Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Eliel Saarinen, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Dinocrates, Eero Saarinen, and Gunnar Asplund. After him are Gottfried Böhm, Rafael Moneo, James Stirling, Inigo Jones, Lina Bo Bardi, and Hans Scharoun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Camillo Sitte ranks 26. Before him are Walther Flemming, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Georg von Hertling, Henryk Siemiradzki, Teófilo Braga, and Hermann Schwarz. After him are David Popper, Anton von Werner, Mariano Rampolla, Mikhail Skobelev, Hans Richter, and Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1903, Camillo Sitte ranks 21. Before him are Vasily Dokuchaev, Calamity Jane, Draga Mašin, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Richard Jordan Gatling. After him are Marcel Renault, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Sabino Arana, James Glaisher, Ronglu, and Sophie Gengembre Anderson.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Camillo Sitte ranks 324 out of 1,424. Before him are Lotte Lenya (1898), Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793), Christine Nöstlinger (1936), Hans Makart (1840), Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797), and Robert Adler (1913). After him are Martin Karplus (1930), Raoul Hausmann (1886), Peter Fendi (1796), Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (1628), Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1680), and Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Austria

Among architects born in Austria, Camillo Sitte ranks 6. Before him are Otto Wagner (1841), Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928), Richard Neutra (1892), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656), and Hans Hollein (1934). After him are Ettore Sottsass (1917), Ferdinand Fellner (1847), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), Josef Frank (1885), Christopher Alexander (1936), and Heinrich von Ferstel (1828).

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