The Urban Aesthetic

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The aesthetics of a great city is a combination of many sensory stimuli as well as the visual one. Most of these and even some of the visual effects are outside the control of the designer. Great cities have had fine ap proaches, fine magnets of general interest. They have historically been mainly for the slow pedestrian and for daytime effect. Now we must find a way to preserve or restore the approaches and the magnets of the city centers and to create them in the plasmodial periphery. And we must do this on a new time scale including the speed of the airplane and on a twenty-four hour basis. To do this while also retaining nature is the principal problem. It will not be solved by a few towering geniuses alone.

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