The Victory City it’s the future city, an American dream come true. It’s based on one big institution that controls everything, but provided people comfort, security and happiness. Wait, did I just say happiness? All in the same place? Wow, this must be a hug project, taking care of every life detail, but shouldn’t it be already done? I think that this extraordinary place for some reason doesn’t exist. I don’t think that it’s a good idea to mix everything in the same place; human action can’t just be pigeon hole. Sometimes we need to get out of the real world, escape, get out of that routine that suffocate us, but this kind of cities just keep us like prisoners of life, doing everything in the exact way every day, the same markets, coffee shops, restaurants, gym, work, etc. It’s true that our real cities may have pollution problems, traffic, natural resource and definitely they aren’t perfect, but a good urbanism knows that we need to fix our problems know to model our next move in the future. You just can’t start a new perfect city based on a theory that might result, because in the meantime you will understand the mistakes and which things can be improve. People need real money to life, their own privacy, parks, in some way, individually, not always but there must be a space for it! Have you read Big Brother from George Orwell? This is the kind of reality that we are going to built with Victory city, a cold, impersonal and manipulated way of life. We need to grow from our present mistakes to build a correct future, bearing in mind our past, just to consider not going back to it.
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