A brief study on the Town Planning of the Greek city of Miletus. This presentation is aimed at a quick understanding of the same.

1. Key Facts
• Major city of Ionia.
• 37°35´ latitude and 27°15´ longitude
• Excavations began in 1868
• 80 + Colonies along coast
• Miletus included :
1) Assesos (Mengerevtepe)
2) Teichioussa
3) Ioniapolis (Mersinet Iskelesi)
4) Didyma or Branchidai
5) Myous, which was annexed in the
3rd century BC.
o 11th BC: Miletus inhabited
by the Greeks
o 8th BC: Miletus a
major polis and
important in sea
trade
o 494 BC: Rebellion against
Persian Rule.
o City Burned
o 493 BC: Hippodamus
restored Miletus.
Scale:
Key Map
01MILETU
S
PODUVAL DHANYA
PRAVIN
M.PLAN (INT)
School of
Planning and
Architecture,
New Delhi
Legend/Inferen
ces:
Sources:
The City & Its Planning
• Fortified polis
• 4 ports – major Port of Lions
• Port of Lions – Strategically Placed –
Important for defence
• Reconstruction in regular blocks
• City centre was divided into three cores
corresponding to the three areas of public
life: religious, administrative, and
commercial.
• Spatial form based on symmetry and
balance.
• The buildings around the central port
include:
• Port Colonnade
• The small Agora
• The Prytaneion
Along with the western part of the Temple of Delphinian
Apollo.
• Hippodamus' city plan probably included the Temple of
Athena, located west of the Stadium..
• The whole of the city center was reshaped, including the
north and south Agora, the Gymnasium and the
Bouleuterion, Stadium Nymphaeum whereas the north
Agora underwent certain changes: the propylon was
demolished,
• Stores were built in zones on the Agora's eastern side, is
among the earliest architectural works of the Roman period
and one of the city's most characteristic ones.
Plan of the City
Plan & Sectional Isometric of the TheatreSouth Agora – Market Place
Plan of the Agora