https://www.isegoria.net/2011/06/cities-from-scratch/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2011/06/cities-from-scratch/comment-page-1/#comment-261331 Charlie Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:22:28 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=25147#comment-261331 Note that this is a very different sense of ‘cities from scratch’ than Brasilia — a planned-from-above city that did not work out very well. Same with housing projects such as Cabrini-Green in Chicago, now torn down, that turned out to be way more disfunctional and dangerous than the ‘bad neighborhoods’ it replaced.

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