The fallacy comes from the fact that many humans must interact with the environment over time. The optimization for an imagined group of humans at a certain poi

The fallacy comes from the fact that many humans must interact with the environment over time. The optimization for an imagined group of humans at a certain point of time dooms real humans to long periods of struggle. The transport of Le Corbusier's ideas from the South of France to urban Scotland is possibly the best example of this. To be condemned to live in the flats on the outskirts of Glasgow is a stark fate indeed. American suburban architecture is pretty bad, but at least it's disposable. Generations to come won't have to live in these things.