8/12 Perhaps it would be better to say "An Architect's America." Let each city take expert counsel from the architectural demigods how to tear out the dirty core of its principal business square and erect a combination of civic centre and permanent and glorious bazaar. Let the public debate the types of state flower, tree, and shrub that are expedient, the varieties of villages and middle-sized towns, farm-homes, and connecting parkways. They went through without hesitation. The United States may be in many things slack. Often the democracy looks hopelessly shoddy. |