In his New York Times opinion piece about the vacuum of governance in large swaths of Pakistan among other places, Steve Inskeep mentions in passing the late urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis, who was one of the key figures in 20th-century urban life. Funny that someone who held so much sway over so many lives is all but forgotten to those outside of city planning. A 1960s NBC interview with Doxiadis:

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