The decline of Comprehensive Urban Planning was one of the major advantages in determining the capitalist vision in the face of social resistance. This made it difficult for planners to consider the number of critics insisting on the impact of planning. This is because cities have changed; there was no way to maintain a coherent plan. The conflict between the central controls needed to carry out comprehensive urban planning and capitalism where individual property holders say how things are done because of their interests in their property. The growing power of property owners has made it more difficult for planners to adopt comprehensive approaches. Critics argue that failing to restructure urban infrastructure plans would only lead to failure in terms of economic and technological demands. Roughly, there were a lot of people who had debts on their property and didn't want complete planning; therefore capitalism was the cause of the fall of the global ideal in urban planning. Most planners have been questioned by critics regarding the ideal of infrastructure, such as highway, road, airport and railway. Local state employers found that if everyone owned their own property in the city, they would ultimately have their own wants and needs. This would explain the evolution towards much smaller scale planning. This would create problems because it would not keep cities planned or under any control. Another association with comprehensive urban planning is modern planning, which has also been discredited by criticism. In the 1960s and 1980s, it was unable to implement modern planning due to the alternation of social, economic and cultural aspects. Sandercock indicates that the Chi...... middle of paper ......example, let's say you build a system of roads, bridges, water, sewers, etc. in an entire city. All of these factors cost millions in taxpayer funds. If these projects don't attract businesses and increase employment in the city while generating tax revenue, how will the city repay the bonds sold to pay for infrastructure? So they decided to target certain areas and projects with specific objectives. Edward W. Soja, author of the book Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions states: “Even in its most progressive forms, urban planning seemed to function primarily, if often unintentionally, to satisfy the basic needs of capital and the capitalist economy . state." This also goes back to the small-scale infrastructure accompanied by planners. For example, the Boston Tunnel, is a famous infrastructure project known as "The Big Dig".".
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