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Seeing Like a State (Scott)

in Papers I Ride With by Adrian Cole

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Seeing Like a State (Scott) on “Papers I Ride With”, a list by Adrian Cole on TheLysts.

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Political science / Planning
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1998
Core idea in one line
Big, high-modernist plans fail when they flatten messy local knowledge into neat, legible grids.
My take
After this, you never look at superblocks, public housing courtyards, or “smart city” dashboards without hearing a faint bureaucratic cackle.
Good starting point for
Questioning why top-down reforms so often backfire in cities.

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