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That's what happens when central planners try to "design" a city from scratch. Cities sort of happen, they rarely succeed all at once from the drawing board. I
by iwwr 16y ago
That's what happens when central planners try to "design" a city from scratch. Cities sort of happen, they rarely succeed all at once from the drawing board. I think the only successful cities of this sort were national capitals (Brasilia, Abuja).
To use a software analogy, they built a costly application, shipped without any debugging or testing.
- ck2 16y agoWouldn't a better software analogy be they developed a full-blown, expensive app without questioning or testing the needs of the market? (or the ability of the market to afford it in these particular cases)