The New City Problem #
June 9th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
One problem with building new cities where nothing was: architects have no idea how to design buildings.
In Dubai, for instance, what might once have been the product of 100 years of urban growth has been compressed into a decade or so. Given such seismic shifts, even the most talented architects can seem to flounder for new models. No one wants to return to the deadly homogeneity associated with Modernism’s tabula rasa planning strategies.