The ideal city has been the impossible dream for as long as there has been civilisation – a word that itself derives from civitas, the city. From Plato to Thomas More, Leonardo da Vinci to Le Corbusier, every genius has imagined the ideal city but none has got anywhere close to achieving it. The city is our most complex invention. Architects, urbanists, sociologists and historians have all tried to distil it into elements – what makes a city work, what makes a city beautiful – but it has proved impossible. The city remains stubbornly resistant to perfection. Financial Times
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Is the Eco-city the new Utopia?
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