Which town?

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R., who came and went, observing the confusion of methods and approaches and the dearth of resources, proposed to begin with a pilot project, a first experiment, a model, where one could try out, watch and learn directly – and where it would also be possible for him to realize some prototypal outlines of the architectural forms to come, with new treatments of available building materials which could later be used and practiced in the construction of the city. It appeared to him equally indispensable to put the ideals to the test of the actual needs and movements of collective life – to find out how an assemblage of such disparate elements could be “organized” and to discover a viable and durable harmony which could serve as an example. She gave Her consent and named the selected site, on the Eastern edge of the plateau overlooking the ocean and near to an existing village, “Auromodel” – a concessi0n to the limitations of the ones as of the others.

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Several vanguards of collective effort had already risen on the boundaries of the territory, in the vicinity of the first farms and the main road, where various trials of economical habitat adapted to the climate were being made. A widely shared impression dictated that one should abstain from creating any lasting structure on the grounds reserved for the town itself, until the time the inspiration would be clearer and the instruments more receptive.

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