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to improve and ensure the city's public services, spatial arrangement,
appearance, security, etc.
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a way to regulate and discipline the city-dwellers,
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an abstraction, sometimes ideal but never without errors or blindness to
real-life activities.
"The urban reformers imposed an interpretive grid on the city
and reduced its social life to a number of human capacities, vices and
virtues which allowed them to extrapolate a fixed pattern of statistical
relationships. In doing so, they subjected the population of the
city to observation, amelioration and discipline. But could all the
activities of the populations of Manchester or London . . . really
be captured in this neat categorization? " (source:
435)
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