“Drawing on the ideas and fantasies he had developed for an ideal city while living in Milan thirty years earlier, Leonardo began sketching in his notebook his radical and utopian aspirations for inventing a town from scratch. It was not to be. The project was abandoned in 1519, the year Leonardo died. Instead, the king decided to build his new château at Chambord, in the Loire Valley between Amboise and Romorantin. There the ground was less marshy and fewer canals were required. Isaacson, Walter. Leonardo da Vinci (p. 505). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. Isaacson, Walter. Leonardo da Vinci (p. 504). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. ”
