Some say the decline of modern-day towns and communities started in 1939 at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York. The most popular exhibition was “the World of Tomorrow” in the General Motors Pavilion. It featured an enormous model of a “City of the Future,” complete with elevated freeways, on-ramps and off-ramps, and gleaming skyscrapers separated by miles and miles of asphalt. For General Motors and the rest of America, this vision became reality, as more and more roads were built across the country and more and more families were able to purchase their own automobiles.
Only now, over 70 years later, are we beginning to see the need for a new and vastly different vision of our future. In a very real sense, the shift from an industrial to an information society to an innovation economy is the reason for revisiting the American love affair with the automobile and asking some very tough questions about its role in the new economy. By doing so, we will begin to open the door to new thinking about the architecture of cities.
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Author:John Eger
