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- From: randolph@netcom.com (Randolph Fritz)
- Subject: Re: Chicago cul-de-sacs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.210839.14927@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:08:39 GMT
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- Ugh. I think that's a grisly plan.
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- Safety has always been an influence on urban design and architecture;
- the following examples come to mind:
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- 1. Military safety was a major influence on the design of older cities
- 2. One of the big selling points of the old suburbs was a (claimed)
- low crime rate.
- 3. Jeremy Bentham, a utilitarian philosopher of the Enlightenment,
- designed panopticon, a building designed specifically for
- surveillance and used as a model for prisons, hospitals, and
- factories.
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- __Randolph
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