The European Cities That Outshine Our Post-War Planners
Twentieth-century Europe unleashed upon itself an unprecedented destructive violence. Hundreds of cities were shelled, mortared, incendiary, and fought over. Spires were toppled, cathedrals razed to the ground, cloth halls and town halls pulverized, and streets so devastated that their course was indistinguishable beneath the steep slopes and gullies of heaped rubble. From the French port … Read more