Abstract
The Platonic Form of the city comprises Plato's projection of fundamental attributes of the human soul upon the social makeup of his Ideal City (Chaps. 7 and 9). Plato's city-soul analogy might be said, therefore, to be the earliest attempt to subject the concept of the city to an eidetic reduction. Plato's Forms, of course, are static, solemn constructs, and the Form of the city, reflecting Plato's Ideal City, is no different. In this, Plato's insight is at variance with the dynamics of the city, primordially expressed in human movement through urban voids – in walking through streets, squares and other open spaces in the city.