Eighty Years Ago, One Could Believe That Cities Were Made Up of Skyscrapers and Streets

Today, building a model of the city, accurate enough to reach the scale of individual life, is beyond the reach of not only technology but even our imagination.

Transition between constantly analyzed Urban sprawl And completely ignored Human sprawl Still remains an unexplored cognitive gap. Urban planners, planners, sociologists of cities endlessly lament the statistics describing the phenomenon on a social scale. Somewhere far away, completely detached from the realities of the city, the problem of alienation, a growing sense of acute life discomfort and disintegration of mental life is supposedly studied by psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists. For a mysterious reason, it is still recognized that the quantitative aspect of the study of urban life provides enough information to make decisions conducive to maintaining the integrity of individuals. A long time ago, vulgarized Marxism explained everything that was difficult to explain by the "dialectical transition of quantity to quality" (which allowed us to repeat the same mistakes endlessly). Today, it looks as if those who deal with the city believe that quality changes seamlessly into quantity. Which saves you the trouble of understanding other people's needs. It's a solid foundation for everyone Infernum.

What did it look like in the old culture Human sprawl It is best to check by looking at the right, hellish wing of the Bosch triptych in Madrid's Prado.  

Bosch lived in a house by the market, efficiently running the family workshop. And at the same time, he was able to draw a voice from Psalm 22 (verses 15-16) that was able to plow not only the market, the town, but also the surrounding area further than his eyes could see. 

Unfortunately, this fragment of Bosch's painting can also be a school illustration of the motif Łódź.

In the photo: Dorama At the Expo in New York in 1939.