Years ago I wrote a book called Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design. The point was The Rationality Project overrates the efficacy of planning and underrates the virtues of improvisation and serendipity.
In today's Washington Post blog, Ezra Klein makes essentially the same case about how things get done, or don't get done, in our nation's capital. Everything would be so much more comprehensible if only the conspirators would get their act together. Ain't gonna happen.
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