Volume 4, Issue 1, October 1995

NEO-CONSERVATISM

William H. Whyte Jr., in his book, "The Last Landscape", has pointed out that, if you examine the thousands of plans that now exist for shiny, new, wonderful cities, there is always one thing certain to be missing. That one thing is a cemetery. In a properly planned city, the fact that people die is taken to be such unwarranted intrusion into an otherwise marvellous equilibrium that city planners simply cannot face up to it. After all, if people die and are replaced by new and different people, then the carefully prescribed "mix" of jobs, of housing, of leisure time activities is upset. Modern city planning is inherently and radically utopian in that it aims to bring history to a stop at a particular moment of perfection.

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