Excerpt: "THE SIMULACRUM OF UTOPIAN DECAY" (A. Glass 2020)

"... As its devised rhetoric, towards the end, the idealist eventually backlashes

on his or her own grandiosity, wrangling with the idea of what consumption

actually entails and how it could be worked as a concept with both capitalism

and socialism in mind. Which became its own paradox and for many who

ventured into this diversion in architectural design. Ensured that it was the

beginning of the end of its radical ideas.

Yet, our cities, now within the 21st Century, have sociologically continued on

into what may be deemed as a cultural template, perceived today in its pharos

of innovation, social and environmental awareness. This evolving towards the

modern city, I feel was not orchestrated as such by the city planners, but more

from the wishes of a society, in its global connectivity, to attain a Utopia..."

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