ARCHETYPE OF CITY (WESTERN AND EASTERN MODEL)

Abstract

The Archetype of the City represents the organization of the Universe, manifesting itself through two different model. This is the city as a temple (embedding analogy of Earth and Heaven and focusing spiritual energy) and a city-fortress (enclosed within itself, divided from Nature and suppresses it). The eastern model still keeps the image of city-temple, universal for ancient people, but it is losing the western model, while developing the archetype of city-fortress. The article shows the periodical return to the archetype of city-temple, which is actual nowadays.