What was a really major bad idea about the Garden City was you take a clean slate and you make a new world. That’s basically artificial. There is no new world that you make without the old world. And Mumford fell for that and the whole “this is the twentieth century” thing. The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism
James Howard Kunstler (JHK) and Jane Jacobs (JJ)
Why the 20th century / modernism feels so wrong to me.
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