2012-04-01
post/20296781908
quote 18:59:06
“ By the mid-1970s, this notion that you could directly apply systems engineering to urban problems was fairly soundly repudiated. There was this perception that we had mastered this enormous amount of complexity and it turns out that putting a man on the moon is fairly simple. It’s technologically challenging, given that the sheer amount of force and energy and orbital trajectories that need to be harnessed and negotiated are enormous in scale. But it’s a problem with relatively few variables whereas the city is problem with an enormous number of interconnected variables in which these systems engineering approaches have little applicability. ”
Nicholas de Monchaux replying to questions in an interview about Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, at Txchnologist.
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