By using superblocks he transformed the amount of land use by using tall towers that opened up over half of the site while keeping the population density the same and in some cases even increasing it, accounting for growth. ... Le Corbusier was very confident in architecture's role in social transformation, even suggesting that there would be a revolution if Paris did not accept the Radiant City Plan. ... Moses did however have the same top-down approach in New York as Haussmann did in Paris. ... The practice for the government previously was to select a renewal site, purchase it, reloc...

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Ernest Gellner was born December 9, 1925 in Paris, France. ... (Mattick The New York Times) In commenting on Gellner and his writings, the Santa Fe Institute Notebooks web site said: "Most of Gellner's writing consists of essays and reviews, in which a fairly limited number of themes crop up again and again; if you like what he says, he brings to mind kaleidoscopes, and if you don't, he seems repetitive." ...

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The Washington Monument was the world's tallest structure for five years, when it was surpassed by Paris' Eiffel Tower. ... National Park Service staff, inspectors and contractors are working diligently to reopen the site as soon as possible. ...

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