miércoles, 10 de octubre de 2007

victory cities...



My first impression about this website was: ..."what are these people thinking? (particullary Orville Simpson II, the inventor of this crazy initiative)...it made me remaind the utopian cities from the industrial revolution period...non of those ever really work, did they?...non of those ever were built...and i think there’s a reason why.
On a second thought, after seeing the city tour i started to get the way everything was planed and meant to work, the way activities were organized in each place and time. Every location, every shape seems to be founded in an interesting urban idea plus there are "serious studies" about the way to finance the city. I gess we all know every proyect work fine in our heads and in the paper sometimes, but being realistic on it...basically because of the city growing subject, i think is un-natural to predetermine the way a city can gorw...probably this stablish a limit in it’s own development, and thinking as a human an not as another ambiciuos architect, i don’t think this may be any good for the people...they wouldn’t be able to make any choice at all!, not even about the furnish in their houses, not even about what they want to eat or how many kids they want to have.
Seems to me just as an experimental standarized moular sistem, an industrial way of life...this doesn’t work for me.

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