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This place is going to be a smoking disaster like everything other high modernist attempt to “rationally design” a city. Why do people keep making these messy, irregular, organic cities? Why won’t they just fit into my perfect plan for exactly how they should live?
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Le Corbusier would have loved it. That’s not a compliment. It’s basically like his “towers in the park” except laid sideways with trains instead of elevators.
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It’s *almost* brilliant. I want to love it. My first reaction was actually really positive before I stopped to think about it. Just imagine leaving a sporting event…in cities you can spread out in four directions, here almost everyone will be trapped in LINE (haha get it?)
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The better version is similar but not so doctrinaire. If it could grow outwards organically, if there was some way to have junctions and turn offs, the idea of a modular city is awesome.
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