Stephen Jennings: evaluation

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…What would be a reference of that kind? It could be the façade of a building. It could be the pattern in a plaza. It could be who designs and the cultural references in a major sculpture. Here Mugumo tree is very, very sacred. We will be moving a massive historic and culturally important Mugumo tree into the center of the plaza. Then the other element is making it very green, very walkable and very, very beautiful, and very safe. Baking that into how we plan the city from day one, really committing in a very deep way to those principles. Generally, they’re quite superficial in modern cities, because you’re constrained by the old city. There’s this huge element of retrofitting. We don’t need to do any of that, but you need to embrace those principles in a very wholehearted fashion. It takes more time, it takes more effort, but the payoff, I think, is going to be massive in the medium term. Let’s say you put aside budget constraints, forget about your shareholders, you’re thinking unrealistically, you’re up at night, excited about something you know you can’t do. What is that something, aesthetically?…

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