I'll send this out to you: parallels can be drawn in how we imagine and build cities. The culture within the government, planning, and architectural communities can have their own way of inhibiting things. I offer a few examples for your reading pleasure, and you may have a few of your own. Here goes:

"Without identity, a sense of both personal and community pride is lost. Though the various posters that are up around the city advertising new developments present them in a nice, clean, friendly and liveable condition, the architectural production they depict seems to lack inspiration."

Most of the inhabitants of cities have not fully fleshed out what the ideal city, actually looks like, works like, or feels like. The dreamer, and the NIMBY, the planner, and the chronic complainer, the entrepreneur, and homeless man all occasionally ponder our own vision of a city. We see through the lens of our own narrow interests, missing an all encompassing vision of the community. Our lens doesn't permit the vision of how the whole place works, and how all the various pieces all work together to make a better place…