

How the spatial atrocities committed by specialists are turning African cities into a dystopian state.

He reveals how the tyrannical nature of specialists is creating fragmented cities. In Dystopia, Archimedes Muzenda reveals the destruction that specialists are creating in cities across Africa. As these specialists focus on their specialities, governed by ideological loyalty and possessiveness, they work in isolations a practice that is pushing African cities off the cliff. Traffic engineers, urban environmentalists, modernist architects, town planning regulators, Marxist and postmodern scholars. Town planning dismantled into various specialists – masters of a single trade. In the last fifty years however, this all changed.

The town planners were Jacks of all trades yet masters of none. In doing so, Muzenda sets basis for specialists to find one another if they are to create prosperous, sustainable and just cities - cities that are liveable.A revelation of the spatial atrocities committed by specialists in development of African cities.įor more than fifty centuries, cities were planned and developed by generalists. He reveals how in their tyrannical nature specialists are committing spatial atrocities, turning African cities into dystopias. In Dystopia, Archimedes Muzenda reveals the destruction that specialists are creating in cities across Africa. Town planning dismantled into various specialists - masters of a single trade. For more than fifty centuries, cities were planned and developed by generalists.
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A revelation of the spatial atrocities committed by specialists in development of African cities.
