It turns out, we're utopians after all

This guy's kinda a zealot, but he's a smart zealot, and it's good to see that perspective.

"...the arrogance of architects who believe that, because they can design a house for one family, they can design an entire urban area for a million families. That is something like gardeners believing that, because they can grow a rose bush, they can design an entire ecosystem for a million-acre forest..."

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