ABSTRACT
We realize . . . that we are now moving into uncharted territory, a territory characterized by fluid conditions – flows of traffic, flows of human beings, flows of money, flows of work . . . Confronted with this mutation, this new urban condition, we refuse to recognize that we are powerless to forestall it. . . . I would like . . . to help make us . . . a profession able to formulate perfectly rational answers to perfectly insane questions. For it seems clear that we are increasingly confronted with utterly irrational problems, problems that we no longer have the luxury of refusing.2
