Newson, in the comments of my last post writes:
“i hate the modernist movement. placed the architectural form before “messy” humans. the only good thing i associate with le corbusier is his chaise longue, a masterpiece of design.
planned cities like brasilia, canberra suck.”
Le Corbusier was a leader in the city planning movement known as “Authoritarian High Modernism”, which is directly responsible for the notoriously unlivable layout of Brasilia.
At around 50:35 of this video, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker talks about Le Corbusier, his movement, and its wretched impact on 20th century cities.
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James C. Scott’s “Seeing Like a State” is pretty great on the topic of authoritarian high modernism. And put me down as one architecture buff who couldn’t agree more about the evils of Le Corbusier.
i see that j.c. scott has authored a new book: “The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia” – have you read it? sounds like one for the david gordon treatment.
I often think the rigor and intelligence of a person such as Pinker is the ideal precondition for somebody to be convinced of libertarianism. Give him Hoppes’ argument from argument or Mises’ axiom of human action and I would hope he would be able to see beyond his liberal mindset, or at least be able to see that it can be integrated into a libertarian world-view by simply dropping the aggression.
hi cool babes
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