This radial pattern was to be abused countless times throughout the history of urbanism with some variations in the program of the city. At the beginning of 19. century Claude Nicolas Ledoux uses for the center of his fantasy city Chaux (instead of a church, castle or a bank) a factory with the owners apartmen. How naive and anahronistic! In truth it is a less and less useful recipe for a kind of universal solution of tasks that are ever more unsolvable. Failing to take into account the actual location of such a city -- topography and genius loci are irrelevant... indeed why bother with such formalities?! In the ideal city for a Human in the name of democratic humanism the grid is dictated by a grid optimized for transportation. Architecture is just a sum of anonymous repetitive structures divided in to zones. Are this really the goals set before us for the future? Hesus Correction to my previous post: The ideal city for a Human in the name of democratic humanism is dictated by a grid optimized for transportation. Cliff T Actually Hesus, the grid is optimised not for transport but maximising the usage of space. As for the video, I do believe he is a great visionary, but you can tell some of his ideas are a little dated. That is to say, why would you design everything to look the same. It's not a very organic way of thinking. One thing I noticed was how much it