97 — Richard Rogers' Reith Lecture — Cities for a Small Planet
About Buildings + Cities
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The Age of Escape From New York
The modern city is defined by powered transport, which allows it to grow large. It has a first phase of enormous expansion, growing slums and environmental despolation. And that goes on until perhaps around the first world war. Then there is a period of the hollowing out of the centre, of sprawl of suburbia. That probably reaches its peak around 19 90 or a little thereafter.
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