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Wikipedia contributors. (2026, March 30). ''Augury''. Wikipedia. <nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augury</nowiki> | Wikipedia contributors. (2026, March 30). ''Augury''. Wikipedia. <nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augury</nowiki> | ||
=== Introduction === | |||
Architects and urban planners shape our cities according to ownership of urban land and the land market. This is because legal and econom- | |||
ic history affects city-making is an enormous subject. Cities are planned by religious orders too, such as the Cistercians in Gascony and the | |||
Teutonic Order in eastern Europe, the Franciscan mission in Spanish Mexico and the aldeias of the Jesuits in Amazonia and central Brazil | |||
(Kostof, 1991). | |||
Architects and urban designers mostly develop cities by analysing commercial areas, infrastructures today the plans are mostly imposed by | |||
politicians. Even when we, architects, try to read the historical development of a city we falsly read them especially when we see an organic | |||
plan. Kostof says and proves that Siena was one of those false reading of a city plan. It is again more likely to related to the regimented design | |||
of mediaval urbanism. (Kostof, 1991 p.70-71) | |||
This project tries to find and alternative reading and analysing cities by asking these questions: | |||
<big>'''What if cities were shaped by something other than land, markets, and master plans?'''</big> | |||
<big>'''How can we analyse and perceive our cities from ecological behaviour: water, wind, or animal paths data and re-experience them?'''</big> | |||
'''Mexico City (Tenochtitlan)''' | |||
The Aztec foundation myth is literally a bird omen. An eagle landing on a cactus, eating a serpent, told them where to build. The entire city | |||
was founded on this omen. The modern city sits exactly on that spot, now buried under concrete. The installation here would be devastating: | |||
the city that was built because a bird landed there, and you can't see a single bird from the centre of it anymore. | |||
'''Rome''' | |||
While seeking the perfect location for their new city, the twins wandered across the seven hills (Aventine, Celio, Capitol, Esquiline, Palatine, | |||
Quirinal and Viminal). Remus wished to start the city on Aventine Hill, while Romulus preferred Palatine Hill. To decide which brother was | |||
right, they agreed to consult augury, where birds are examined to see what the gods favoured. Remus claimed to have seen six birds, where- | |||
as his brother had seen twelve. Even though Romulus had seen more birds, Remus argued that he had seen them first and therefore the city | |||
should be built on the Aventine Hill. Meanwhile, Romulus began to build a wall on his hill, which Remus decided to jump over. | |||
Augury was literally constitutional — Roman law required reading birds before any major civic decision. The city's founding is a bird story: | |||
Romulus saw twelve vultures, Remus saw six, and that decided who built the walls. The seven hills were augural observation points before | |||
they were administrative districts. The city is already a frozen augury reading. One of the most famous auspices is the one which is connected | |||
with the founding of Rome. Once the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, arrived at the Palatine Hill, the two argued over where the | |||
exact position of the city should be. Romulus was set on building the city upon the Palatine, but Remus wanted to build the city on the strategic | |||
and easily fortified Aventine Hill. The two agreed to settle their argument by testing their abilities as augurs and by the will of the gods. Each | |||
took a seat on the ground apart from one another, and, according to Plutarch, Remus saw six vultures, after which Romulus saw twelve. The | |||
two clashed over whether the preference of the gods was indicated by Remus seeing vultures before Romulus did, or by Romulus seeing | |||
twelve vultures while Remus saw six. Vultures were pre-eminent in Roman augury, furnishing the strongest signs an augur could receive from | |||
a wild bird. They were subject to protective taboos and also called sacred birds. | |||
'''Cairo / Memphis''' | |||
The ibis was Thoth, scribe, measurer, the god of knowledge and urban order. Ancient Egyptian cities aligned with bird migration and Nile | |||
flood patterns simultaneously. The sacred ibis nested along the Nile in patterns that | |||