IntroductionThree types of city models may be identified in terms of type and level of intervention in their forms: 1. The “shaping” city, 2. the “shaped” city, and 3. the city where its form is a combination of “shaping” and “shaped”. Obviously, the quantity (numbers) of the three model types are by no means the same, i.e. it varies greatly from time to time, system to system, as well as from region to region. From the time when urban design was officially recognized as an academic field and a profession, up to now, in the middle of the last century, a question has always been seriously addressed by philosophers, intellectuals and urban design professionals. The question is that what level of intervention in the form of city is truly logical and reasonable. We have been witnessing the creation of two entirely opposite poles [no intervention at all (pre and post-modern) to full intervention (in the modern era). Undoubtedly, each of these models has been based on a specific paradigm and worldview.