The need to reshape our cities is evidently put down in terms of how they’ve changed overtime so far and the characteristics that make development today more difficult are these details that are still apparent, such as road systems, spread of housing, and the enclosure of important buildings.
In some of our larger cities, the derelict or empty plots are so because they fitted a previous time in their actual dimensions. It’s also becoming difficult to still identify towns and cities because the same parameters still have to apply. If there’s a mistake in not providing enough public space, it may not qualify for a type of real municipal authority.
The clutter is now telling in a time of simplification and more straightforward ways of living. The detail is not needed over the pragmatism of more for a much larger population. The lives that we have are supposed to be the characteristics of who we are rather than what we join in to do together. It’s an old way.