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Chapter V

THE NEW SMALL VERTICAL CITY

All new vertical neighborhoods in development
today lack a prospective vision. They result from the
accumulation of isolated initiatives that are coordinated
nearly only by administrative and technical rules, which
include the L/H and L/B rules. They will leave a mark
on the landscape that risks to be only for less than a
century while having monopolized considerable human
and financial means both for the private investor and
the community.

The lifespan of post Second World War construc-
tions, based on short-term architectural and techno-
logical vision and concepts, is already quite short. It is
now further shortened by the current enthusiasm for
unbridled geometric forms using, naively or with invo-
luntary and futile cynicism, scientific progress and tech-
nical prowess.

Engineering is now reduced to the stylish exteriors
of American cars produced in Detroit barely 30 years
ago! We have witnessed where neglect of logic and
mechanical expertise can lead.

This incites me, thus, faced with this disordered thin-
king, to propose a theoretical model for a new small
vertical city of 30.000 inhabitants that complements the