One Mayor’s Downfall Killed the Design Project That Could’ve Changed Everything
Amanda Kolson Hurleynextcity.org
One Mayor’s Downfall Killed the Design Project That Could’ve Changed Everything
What – and who – is a city for?
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The outcome of these visionary projects, as described in detail by Scott, is nearly always a complex but dead system. A city void of life, with empty streets, unused buildings, unhealthy forests, poorer people. The high modernist visionary falls victim to their overconfidence, and skips over building the simple systems that work first.
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Coleman McCormick • Gall's Law: But First, Simplify
The same is true in architecture: over-planned model cities rarely work as intended and are hard to love, whereas the best designs have built into them a capacity to adapt and evolve.