The contemporary shape of the housing estate does not promote development of social bonds. No other pro-social movement in the whole history of urban space has changed so much in the traditional cityscape as the modern avant-grade of the 19th and early 20th century. The situation in urban planning and design at that time was similar to other fields of science. The period brought a change in understanding beauty in art and architecture, and modernism strongly emphasised functionalism, rational and utilitarian values of the living environment of man.
