Which town?

A prior formulation, born of an open vision of the whole, of a few keys of harmony to be observed by everyone, should have already been shared and agreed upon – simple parameters such as orientation, distance from the edge of the streets or access lanes, a common language in the facades.

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But the only bounds and provisos on which everyone could almost agree were the distribution of the four zones, the positioning of the roads, avenues and streets, whether circular or radial even though, there too, the absurdity of certain situations ought perhaps to have led to a more generous, or less conflictual, adaptation since, in several cases, the line drawn on the plan could not be transcribed on the ground without abrupt interruptions – the fence of a private land or the drop of a ravine. Nowadays the first paved avenue almost entirely lined on both sides with residential buildings, finds itself for the third time already in muddy disarray, now by the excavation of a lateral trench to house new underground cables – or it might as well be for new ducts to evacuate the waste water to a recycling plant – reflecting thus successive discoveries, innovations and improvements and the permanent debate between professionalism and amateurism in the community.

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Nevertheless, the new adventure proclaimed in the name of the galaxy, this gigantic construction of the longest of the “lines of force” called “goodwill” announces itself imminent. The day of the 50 th anniversary of Her attempt has already seen the community invited to lay a symbolic first stone and

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