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is a matter of science, not of taste. Instruction regarding things such as sunlight and fresh air to health, would create, in time, a clientele worthy of the scientific architect.

The original manifesto of CAM called for primary school students to be taught the elementary principles of scientific housing: the importance of sunlight and fresh air to health... the rudiments of electricity, heat, lighting, and sound... the right principles of furniture design... and so on. There were matters of science, not of taste... instruction would create, in time, a clientele worthy of the scientific architect. (Scott 1998: 114)

is a matter of science, not taste. The idea is that as a result instruction in scientific principles to the public regarding health (sunlight and air), comfort, and design would create, in time, a clientele worthy of the scientific architect.

is today, based in a universal model requiring complete transformation of a site rather than a consideration of it virtues and qualities.

There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and the qualities that are there, and then to build on them. The only thing is complete transformation.

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