Urbanites by Marc Steiner
“Make no big plans, only small ones.”
-- Witold Rybczynski, author of "Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities
Photo by: Alfishstick
Architect Witold Rybczynski on what happens in cities while the “experts” are busy making other plans.
By: Marc Steiner
Witold Rybczynski is no great fan of urban planning. In a recent column in Slate, he offered a note of caution about city “smart plans” championed by the director of President Barack Obama’s new White House Office of Urban Affairs. “The last binge of planning in the 1960s produced urban renewal, city expressways, and acres of housing projects from which many cities are still only partially recovered,” he wrote. He concluded by paraphrasing the great urban planner Daniel Burnham: “Make no big plans, only small ones.” >> Read More
