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I highly recommend "Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed" reviewing the rise of top-down city planning especiall
by hellbanner 9y ago
I highly recommend "Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed"
reviewing the rise of top-down city planning especially in recent modern cities like Brasilia (which systematically removed public space & spontaneous street interactions by design)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia
- dvdhnt 9y ago> Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics―the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Thanks, it sounds like something I'd love; ordering a copy!
- hellbanner 9y agoGreat! Other recommendations: City of Quartz & Season of the Witch (on LA and SF's civic development), everything by Jane Jacobs, Organization of Man