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L' anatema verso il brutto sarà anche un dovere ma è un dovere molto molto pericoloso. Ecco il triste spettacolo di cio' che spesso accade nella testa del censore:
"... If we build suburbs with yards and cul de sacs, away from the smoke and crowds of the city, as the twentieth-century Garden City movement advocated, labor and capital will live in peace... If we build new houses with porches, goes today’s New Urbanist reasoning, we’ll be neighborly like in the good old days. (Never mind that air-conditioning makes hanging out on the porch less necessary or desirable.) If we outlaw big garages, people will abandon their automobiles. If we build unusual houses, people will be tolerant. If we make a city exactly the way I want to live, EVERYONE WILL BE LIKE ME..."
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.) by Virginia Postrel
