Budapest is a city born in 1873 by unifying two independent areas separated by the Danube. In 1871, the Counsel for Public Utility Works, the task of which was to prepare a town planning scheme after the integration of the city, held an urban design competition. The purpose of the competition was to connect the two areas by transport plans and to create monumental cityscape by placing public buildings. Although few of the ideas of the participants were adopted in the plan created by the Counsel, similar ideas were proposed by urban planners later and some of them were realized.
