What you don't see. That is, to step up to the plate when it comes to discussing and guiding policies on growth, development and in-fill construction. Yet we haven't stepped forward, because we're not skilled as leaders. We need to teach ourselves how to run with this. It begins in the schools of architecture.
Teaching is almost focused on learning how to design objects.
Context is given lip service. He learned about context the hard way. After graduation, he and his new bride headed for Denver. Credit modernist Hugh Stubbins, who in the 1970s designed the Citicorp Center in New York. He told me to go where I could practice good contemporary architecture.