Step One: Kill The Architects

This illustrated list outlines the 10 simple steps to designing the city of the future.

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September 17, 2007, 5:00 AM PDT

Photographer Danny Lyon offers his ideas for improving cities.

"I have been asked to help design a city. I am flattered. In the past, this was the job of emperors and kings. Of course, today, things are a bit more complicated. Having benefited from a New York City public school education and 65 years of life, and with the peace of mind necessary for clear thought that I have now, living on my farms, where I raise my own vegetables and fish, I recommend the following:

1: First we kill the architects

2: Then we burn the malls..."

FULL STORY: First We Kill the Architects

Sunday, September 9, 2007 in The New York Times

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