Even though urban life has globally become the predominant form of existence, the hunger for an urban Utopia, for a completely different and perfect city, has lost its luster. Too often it has been tried and failed, too often the results were mediocre or so far from "perfect" that a mockery has been made of the term. Architects such as Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright developed Utopian models, so did the landscape architect Ebenezer Howard and the entrepreneur Pullman. Architects like to quote Daniel Burnham that one should make "no small plans".  But the time when powerful or creative white men could cast a mold for others to adjust to has passed. 
This article will show how a global manufacturer of vertical transportation agrees and disagrees with that conclusion.

 

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