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This "early render" of the Praxis city reminded me right away of "The High-Modernist City". It looks like the failures described there: straight lines and symmetry, segregation of function, seen from so far above that the humans disappear.

This "early render" of the Praxis city reminded me right away of "The High-Modernist City". It looks like the failures described there: straight lines and symmetry, segregation of function, seen from so far above that the humans disappear.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/james-c-scott-seeing-like-a-state#toc28

sympathetic to this view though am slightly more optimistic. https://www.cityofpraxis.com/city seems like it takes more cues from new urbanism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism than https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Radieuse. are you a christopher alexander fan?

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💯 agreed. i think what makes old world cities so desirable is that their "design" emerged from human action and human need over time. no yale designer IYIs necessary

im a fan of both scott and alexander (and also scott alexander, but thats unrelated)

there are no easy answers. you need both "build it like legos" and "grow it like a garden"

but if i had to pick one, id take tinkering and local knowledge over top-down design from afar