“Its Downtown Hasn’t Grown Like Toxic”

A 1967 urban planning propaganda film touting I.M. Pei’s top-down vision for Oklahoma City’s downtown. Never fully realized, the project was something of a fiasco which resulted in the demolition of some really cool historic buildings. Even though contemporary China does it at will, imposing order from on high onto cities doesn’t really work in America. Sometimes viral is mistaken for toxic.

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