Sorry, city sophisticates, but the metropolis of the future may prove far less intensely urban than you hope. For all the focus on trendy downtowns and skyscrapers, the real growth in jobs and population is likely to take place on the periphery. Newsweek
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Once again, Market Forces prove that we "city sophisticates" do not comprehend what Real People actually want - and therefore our criticisms, no matter how well-meant, are little more than snobbery. A professor at a recent crit of mine quoted Flaubert: "The middle class is ALWAYS right."
Where's Manfredo Tafuri when I need him?
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this month's Record has a 2-part critique/commentary on Jane Jacobs, written by Sorkin and Campbell...it touches on the "imposition of one-dimensional planning ideas..." on urban centers, principles vs. common sense, and who should be responsible for deciding the fate of a place - the people of the Master planner...
related, surely.
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