Organic cosmology was embodied in circular city plans replicating the macrocosm

Evidence

The stress on organic unity in agriculture, the community, and the human body was also manifested in the relation between cosmos and city. City planning and environmental design formed an important aspect of the holistic character of the City of the Sun. The city itself was a miniature replica of the larger macrocosm. The Temple of the Sun on a hill in the center of the city was surrounded by seven circular walls representing the seven circular planets and named for them. Four streets and four gates oriented the community to the four points of the compass. The circular temple in the center was a small model of the plan of the heavens. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 382

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete example of how the organic cosmos-city analogy was materialized in utopian environmental design — useful shared vocabulary for the polyad.
• XREF: Ties to ch25’s Campanella utopia embedded in a living female earth, and to place-based design thinking across courses. — connects to: Neoplatonic cosmology treated the cosmos as a living macrocosmic organism — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 458; Utopian organic planning married heaven and earth in miniature island worlds — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 385; Neoplatonic cosmology retained a female world-soul as the source of natural motion — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 458 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoplatonic cosmology treated the cosmos as a living macrocosmic organism #expands (0.85) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 458
• Utopian organic planning married heaven and earth in miniature island worlds #expands (0.80) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 385
• African ontological and cosmological systems transferred intact with enslaved labor #corroborates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 607
• Neoplatonic cosmology retained a female world-soul as the source of natural motion #corroborates (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 458