r/PlanningMemes

The “city of the future” will not be some glass skyscraper modernist wetdream, no matter how many trees you want to put on the buildings. The city of the future, that cities we will actually see down the eons, will be the ones we want to preserve; places where humans feel comfortable, that we find democratically beautiful, with cozy proportions and human-sized infrastructure. Modernism is intentionally a rebuke of tradition, and therefore cannot survive the ages; it is liminal by design. Traditional architecture and human-focused infrastructure will never go out of style (at least not democratically).