![]() ![]() However the modern man was still the same person, architects just took the easy way out of accommodating these people in huge boring buildings that did not relate to a human. Modernist ideas suddenly believe that we are new people, people of changed ideas, changed dimensions even if not quite literally, and that we are evolved to suddenly have large volumes, these skyscraper -like monumental structures. Gehl goes on to talk about how before the world war II, there was a different way of designing, which was by installments, urban planning was not done through an airplane view of the spaces but by walking around the place, figuring out what is the best-suited location for each space based on how the eye perceives it. The collateral for a modernist world inevitably became the people and the humans that inhabited it. ![]() As a young graduate that was so hopeful of creating real-world modernist buildings, which were largely being practiced to accommodate for the sudden growth in the population, Gehl eventually realized that as much as these modernist ideologies account for the problem at hand. ![]()
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