Well-Tempered Environment

In The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment, architecture critic Reyner Banham invokes a connection between cities and pollution that Aristotle made long ago: "While it was necessary for men, in Aristotle’s phrase, ‘to come together in cities in order to lead the good life’, those cities, by virtue of the coming together of men, would become places of pollution and congestion...http://www.architectmagazine.com/planning/designing-for-a-global-airpocalypse_o.aspx?dfpzone=home&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=jump&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ANW_051914&day=2014-05-19