"Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist."
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Robert Hughes
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (28 July 1938 β 6 August 2012) was an Australian art critic, writer, and documentary broadcaster.
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