Grand Gestures: Planning, Contingency and the Image of the Modern City / Part 2
From Brasilia to Boston, from Bucharest to Chandigarh, Grand Gestures are not the same as the Great Deeds they were intended to become. Whereas the Great Deed is a retrospective historical construct, the Grand Gesture is a projective fantasy, a performance in which the intention never determines the result, and agency is not necessarily synonymous with sovereignty.