Claims / C-RR43E4XREA
Conjecture
Assuming stability is one of the ways ruins get made. Gaddis's argument, which Part I adopts as its stance toward planning: a heavy hand and a focused mind can appear to achieve monumentality, but only by flattening the topography, and you cannot do that all the way down because the earth's irregularities reflect its nature. Resilience accommodates the unexpected. The claim is not that planning fails, it is that plans which require the ground to hold still will be ruined by ground that does not.
Evidence 1 passage
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Assuming stability is one of the ways ruins get made. Resilience accommodates the unexpected.”[^22] This is one of the underlying reasons why the British colonies performed substantially better after independence than did the Spanish. The
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