The Future City Should Be Classical

Conservative and aesthetician Roger Scruton attacks the previous contributions of Jules Lubbock and Richard Rogers to the planning debate in www.openDemocracy.net."Classicism provides a vision that is universal in its aim, and comprehensive in its understanding of the relation between buildings and people. The goal is fittingness: buildings must fit to each other and to the urban context; part must fit to part in the composition of the whole."This demand for fittingness stems from a deep human need. We seek to be at home in the world – to come in from our wandering, and to settle in the place that is ours. We have to return to these principles as the basis for our building if we are to end the disaster of our planning systems in both the developed and developing world, and to reconstruct and renew the experience of community in contemporary settings."

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