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The Legibility link is very cool.
In fact, so cool, I'll copy the recipe here: - Look at a complex and confusing reality, such as the social dynamics of an old city - Fail to understand all the subtleties of how the complex reality works - Attribute that failure to the irrationality of what you are looking at, rather than your own limitations - Come up with an idealized blank-slate vision of what that reality ought to look like - Argue that the relative simplicity and platonic orderliness of the vision represents rationality - Use authoritarian power to impose that vision, by demolishing the old reality if necessary - Watch your rational Utopia fail horriblyHere is the recipe: