Most cities are not greenfield operations that are built from a clean slate like Songdo or Masdar. Most cities are not Versailles that has the luxury of infinite budgets, possibilities, and space. Most cities are like Paris, built according to the way of the pack donkey, in ad hoc and semi-planned fashion through centuries of shifting styles and preferences. The cities we are going to live in in the future are already there with living breathing humans, who depend on them to supply them with basic needs every day. Consequently, our ...
7. Architect with imagination: Could payphones show the way in an emergency?
Anders Lisdorf1
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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