To follow on from the last post here’s a few words from the Bauman…
“The lesson which planners could learn from the long chronicle of lofty dreams and abominable disasters which combine to form the history of modern architecture, is that the prime secret of a ‘good city’ is the chance it offers people to take responsibility for their acts ‘in a historical unpredictable society’, rather than ‘in a dream world of predetermined order.’
Whoever feels like dabbling in inventing city space while guided solely by aesthetic harmony and reason, would be well advised to pause first and ponder that ‘men can never become good simply by following the good orders or good plan of someone else‘.”
-Zygmunt Bauman ‘Globalization – the Human Consequences’ (Polity 1998, p46)
