Abstract
The metropolis of 1980, like the metropolis of 1957, is constantly in the process of becoming. Where the one leaves off and the other begins is a study in the continuous development of ideas and techniques—which is what the following projection attempts in the guise of retrospect. The tenses used are the simple present and past of an obscure future as a contemporary historian might one day write them.
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