Quick: is it Jane Jacobs … or HITLER!?!
The community as such is not the dominant characteristic of our
contemporary cities, and therefore it is not to be wondered at if the
community does not find itself architecturally represented. Thus we must
eventually arrive at a veritable civic desert which will at last be
reflected in the total indifference of the individual citizen towards
his own country.
Answer: IT’S HITLER.1
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf. Tr. James Murphy. Project Gutenberg. Quoted in Joshua Hagen and Robert Ostergren, 2006. “Spectacle, architecture and place at the Nuremberg Party Rallies: projecting a Nazi vision of past, present and future.” Cultural Geographies 13 (2) (April 1): 157–181. doi:10.1191/1474474006eu355oa. ↩
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