The Country that Wanted to Build a City in the Shape of a Rhino

The history of city planning is one of many crazy ideas and concepts. What aspects make a city attractive? Why did Modernism both succeed and fail? What constitute a living street?
And what was up with the plan of building a capital city in the shape of a Rhino in South Sudan?
Small Circles Forward by Daniel Karlsson Lönnö 2023.
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00:00 Intro
00:28 Paris
01:20 Poor urban design
03:10 Old towns
04:10 Modernism was the future
05:39 Modernism failures
06:42 First cities
08:31 The success of modernism
10:07 Jane Jacobs and the city street
12:34 Rhino city
14:35 Crazy urban planning
15:38 Outro
Sources:
Rybczynski, Witold. Makeshift Metropolis (2010)
Glaeser, Edward. Triumph of the City (2011)
Carmona, Matthew. Public Places, Urban Spaces 3rd Edition (2021)
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere (1993)
Music from Epidemic Sounds:
"52nd street" by Ch(a)ntarelle downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Divers" by Hara Noda downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Inbound" by Brendon Moeller downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"MANNERS (Instrumental version)" by Zorro downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Message between worlds" by William Benckert downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Test tone Square 33" by SFX Producers downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"The way they used to be" by Brendon Moeller downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Through the prism" by Ava Low downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
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