As in modern England, so in fourth-century Greece, their appearance suggests the growth of a care for well-ordered town life and for municipal well-being which leads directly to a more elaborate and methodical oversight of the town as an organized combination of houses and groups of houses.
As we part from this early Greek town-planning, we must admit that altogether we know little of it.

There was such a thing: among its main features was a care for stately avenues: its chief architect was Hippodamus.

Thus much is clear.

But save in so far as Milchhoefer's plans reproduce the Piraeus of B.C.450 or 400, we cannot discern either the shape or the size of the house-blocks, or the grouping adopted for any of the ordinary buildings, or the scheme of the ordinary roads.

We may even wonder whether such things were of much account in the town-planning of that period..