The real problem is that no one, anywhere, can build a proper city anymore. I can't think of a single neighborhood anywhere in the world that I would want to live in that wasn't an established urban center at the turn of the 20th century. A newer building is fine, sometimes (very little from the 1950s-80s), but the urban fabric needs to be very old.
__________________
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
|