Whatever we do, fixed order will always remain just a fragile achievement - the world simply doesn't want to keep frozen in stable configurations.
Always
new forces will keep shaping cities.
Haussmann's
radical interventions in 19th century's Paris are a perfect example
of a new order imposed over an old one.
But
any new layer will be in turn overwritten by another one.
No,
these structures are not free of practicality. But they answer to
practical needs we just can't figure out now. We can't understand
future urban structures and their raison d'être more than Robin Hood
could understand a Jumbo Jet.
But
we can draw
them.
(YOU DIDN'T WIN, MR. HAUSSMANN, 5 has been comissioned for the If Only series of articles of the FX Magazine and published in January 2014.)
(YOU DIDN'T WIN, MR. HAUSSMANN, 5 has been comissioned for the If Only series of articles of the FX Magazine and published in January 2014.)
