> Doug wrote:

>> "The car will lose in significance, and we have to move away from oil
>> and from modes of transport that hurt the climate. What this means in
>> reality: Our cities will change again. We are now experiencing the
>> passing of an era."
>>
>> -Norman Foster, from one of the World's top architectural firms,
>> Foster and Partners, mastermind behind Abu Dhabi's carfree city
>> project of Masdar, on the future of cities. Translated from an
>> interview with ZEIT, on Aug.21.
>> www.zeit.de

>
> Architects are very clever people, unfortunately IME without a connection to
> the real world. There's four in my extended family, all very talented but
> with no sense of reality..