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Thoughts On Urban Design
...and on urban designers. From Lileks.
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 05, 2007 05:47 AM
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Wow. Brilliant. The piece has amazing resonance, all the way back to RAH's comment about there being two types of people. Those who want other people to do what they want them to do and those who want no such thing.
The Design dean in question is a modern archetype, the social engineer who loathes the non-linear/chaotic/natural results of freedom and yearns for imposed symmetry. This usually in the name of efficiency or "morality" but actually more for personal esthetics.
I can hear an echo of Hitler's predilection for city changing architectural projects in the Dean's interview. and it leaves a bad taste.
Posted by K at March 5, 2007 02:17 PM
Wow. Brilliant.
Well, it is Lileks.
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 5, 2007 02:23 PM
Unfortunately, much as the law-enforcement profession tends to attract people who enjoy wielding power, professions such as "urban planning" tend to attract people who enjoy. . . wielding power. The world is their Lego set.
Posted by Jonathan at March 6, 2007 01:10 PM
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