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To architects brought up on Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford's insistence that cities should be viewed as rational organisms - indeed, his idea that they can be rationally planned at all - makes him the very embodiment of old-fashioned, tiresome thinking.
They called it "rationally planned and utterly logical," but also "dauntingly abstract in form".
He kept on wondering how an economy could be rationally planned, without ever wondering whether it should be.
The gas stations and pumps that make modern life possible are among our most rationally planned buildings.
Zoning laws, rationally planned and honestly observed, would probably have kept for Mr. Kloss a decent place to live.
To get a capital conviction, the prosecution must show that he rationally planned out the killings beforehand, and that his actions were "premeditated and deliberated".
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But without a clear sense of what constitutes success, how can one rationally plan for, expect, measure, or be held accountable for those outcomes?
A thorough investigation of the potential effects and interactions between the factors is made possible by rationally planning the trials using systematic procedures, i.e. design of experiments.
People will quite naturally fear that others may (citing the right of nature) invade them, and may rationally plan to strike first as an anticipatory defense.
To accomplish this goal, it should be carried out the following activities: Rationally planning ponds, shrimp ponds and rice farming land around the buffer zone to prevent water pollution and scarcity of food.
We are so eager to speak of harmony in nature (with predators "needed" to regulate prey populations and forest fires "needed" to rejuvenate communities and pave the way for ecological succession) that we fall into the trap of explaining complex systems as if they operated like thinking beings rationally planning their existence.
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