Critic Decries Lack Of Civic Vision

New York Times architectural critic Nicolai Ouroussoff has written in an article published today that the national vision of great civic works projects that helped sculpt cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Orleans has long disappeared, leaving us with nothing more than a decaying urban infrastructure neglected by a generation of mistrustful suburbanites.

The article is not atypical of the mournful elegiacs among many who see the energies of municipal creation migrating to places in Europe and Asia.

The article is well worth one's attention, in my view.