¶ New York City (3)
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"their growth curves are abnormal. On such charts the curves of industrial and economic performance rise abnormally above, or more normally fall back to, or parallel with, the base-line norm of ‘no change.’ The would-be conservators of peace and of economic health have throughout history sought to ‘iron out’ the abnormal humps, to ‘return to normal,’ to no change.
"Einstein’s relativity theory, evolved early in the century, made the static verities of Newtonian mechanics untenable. But it took almost a half-century for the dynamics of Einstein’s relativity to emerge in the daily papers as the atomic bomb, followed by a pattern of dynamic events clearly demonstrating that accelerating change is normal–just as normal as the human appetite for news of the accelerating accomplishment of breakthroughs that swiftly expand man’s domain in the Universe.
“To the Newtonian conservative, the deliberately accelerated obsolescence of structures and equipment, such as we see everywhere about us in contemporary New York, constitutes waste. To the Einsteinian conservative, obsolete structures and equipment are a new mine of selectively concentrated chemical elements–a fundamental resource of the industrial”
¶ Citations
- WAVE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY, N.Y. Guidebook, 1964
