UTOPIA AND POWER IN THE CITY OF THE RENAISSANCE. THE THEORIES OF MORO AND CAMPANELLA IN THE URBAN PROPOSALS

Abstract

The philosophical approaches made by Sir Thomas More in Utopia and TommasoCampanella in The City of the Sun are the starting point of this writing. It seeks to reflect on utopia and power in Renaissance urban proposals.It will be noted that the Renaissance city-ideal, creation more intellectual than real, was a further consequence of Utopian Renaissance thought. In addition, it will be shown that many of the urban ideas of the Renaissance, which did not go beyond doctrine, utopia or ideal exercise of the intellect in the countries of Europe where they originated, had their real materialization field in America. The writing begins by attending to the philosophical and architectonic-urbanistic ideals of the Renaissance and then begins to attend to the ideal city and the real city, looking at the earthly, the divine and the military from the reflections on the city as outer space urban, temples as sacred interior space and ideal military urbanism.