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is a failure today because it has not yet broken loose from the small-town vision concerned with small-town values. What passes for city planning today is fundamentally a rejection of the big city and of all it means its variety, its peculiarities, its richness of choice and experience and a yearning for a bucolic society.

G71 Modern city planning has completely failed to plan for big cities in the twentieth century. It has failed because it has not yet broken loose from the small-town vision concerned with small-town values. What passes for city planning today is fundamentally a rejection ol the big city and ol all it means its variety, its peculiarities, its richness of choice and experience and a yearning for a bucolic society. Why City Planning Is Obsolete GLAZER, Nathan (1923 )

is a pseudoscience that seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.

The pseudoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success. Jane Jacobs

is a pseudoscience,much like bloodletting, where years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense. Jane Jacobs

is a western project which transformed from rational reform of physical space to a more expansive project of modern welfare.

Many urban planning like the one given us by Rabinow (traced some of the dimensions of how modern urban planning had gradually developed over the course of the nineteenth century. Urban planning had started with the rational reform of physical space but had gradually included more and more elements in its purview. By the time such planning had become a socialist project during the 1930s, it was proud of having expanded its scope from city planning, un plan de vill, to planning that included all those elements (spatial, social, psychological, architectural, hygienic, etc.) that contributed to shaping an individual life, un plan de vie. The goal of planning was social and individual health, a well-policed order' (Rabinow anthropos today 11) think of when you start to do a little cleaning and soon, everything begins to look dirty, and you end up spending the whole day scrubbing the long-accumulating burn marks from the inside of the oven. This is a little bit what urban planning looks like in all big cities. tokyo is no exception in the most general sense, but it's singular claim is the jig-saw nature of making use of every possible space.

is often guided by a paternalism that wants to make impossibly profound changes and uses impossibly superficial means for doing so.

The trouble with paternalist is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so. Jane Jacobs

is often guided by principles derived not from cities themselves, but rather the behavior and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities.

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the behaviour and appearance of suburbs, tuberculosis sanatoria, fairs and imaginary dream cities from anything but cities themselves. Jane Jacobs

is often guilty of missing the fact that the sight of people attracts still other people. City planners oftne wrongly operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet.

That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact. . . they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated. . . Jane Jacobs

is often not the rebuilding of cities but the sacking of cities. Our low-income projects are centers of delinquency and vandalism and hopelessness. Our cultural centers are unable to support a good bookstore. Our civic centers are avoided by everyone but bums. Our promenades go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders and our expressways eviscerate great cities.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities. Jane Jacobs

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