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19.18
"Utopia" is not enough
 
     
  To aspire to improve the status of human beings may be noble, but the consideration of any alternative models of city development is fraught with danger.  
  Significant investment exists within the current social structures of great urban cities around the planet Earth. Any model that considers change must also consider the broader economic impact of such recommended changes.  
19.2.1 The practical implications of any recommendations  
  Beyond the economic implications in any suggested "model" of city society is the practical implications on citizens of a city.  
  Utopian models of organised society have been created and some even partially implemented, with less than favourable results.  
  Utopian values often result in fairly autocratic implications. A health society can in one sense be brought about by eliminating all elements that represent risk. The result would be fairly bland food choices and little choice of fun entertainment.  
  Similarly, utopian values of equality of work and social exchange, ultimately leads not to a classless society but a two class society of the very powerful elite and the general class.  
  Karl Marx may well have considered his ideas in terms of developing a utopian society free of the injustices in wealth of the turn of the 20th century. However, the model in its implications spawned an entirely different implementation.  
  Towards living cities  
  A living cty is when entire systems of patterns, interdependent at many levels, is all stable ( balance) and alive.  
  A building or a town becomes alive when every patter in it is alive: when it allowsw each person in it, and each plant and animal and everys tream and bridge and wall and roof and every human group and every road, to become alive on its own terms.  
  And as that happens, the whole town reaches the state that individual people, sometimes reach at their best and happiest moments- when they are free.  
  What happens in a world- a building or a town- in which the patterns have life quality?  
  Every part of it, at every level, becomes unique. The patterns which control a portion of the world are themselves faily simple. But when they interact, they create slightly different overall configurations.  
     
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
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