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Odin2005

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3. One of the great minds of the 20th century.

Reply to femmocrat (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 02:09 PM

May 2016

I first learned about her in my early teens when she was mentioned in a message board for the game SimCity 2000 I frequented at the time. The urban planning orthodoxy of the mid-20th century was inhuman and insane. Brutalism, the "International Style" and similar forms of "modernist" architecture and technocratic urban planning disgust me, gross boring inhuman boxes are not fit for human life.

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