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Planned metropolises tend to break: cities are complex, emergent structures. Brasilia gets more shit than it deserves, but the planning that went behind it cert
by scarmig 13y ago
Planned metropolises tend to break: cities are complex, emergent structures. Brasilia gets more shit than it deserves, but the planning that went behind it certainly wasn't good for it. Maybe "planning better" or "planning for better things" could work, but its hyper-modern conceit to not consider how it has failed in the past.
Or is failing in the present: see the grand, empty cities that the PRC has been building.
- a8da6b0c91d 13y agoMany great european cities grew entirely out of deliberate projects. Some noble family would want to harbor a thriving marketplace so they could tax it. American cities did used to be planned. Philadelphia and New York didn't just assemble as grids. It's only in the postwar era suburbia build out that urban planning became haphazard and driven by developers. The idea of a polity building a well planned city from scratch has loads of successful historical precedent.