Why architects get it wrong. Pop Philosopher Alain de Botton weighs in on Corb’s plan for Paris - indirectly linking it and its kind to the Paris Riots:

“And because such an environment is uncomfortable, there is always a greater risk that people will respond abusively to it, that they will come to the ragged patches of earth between their towers and urinate on tyres, burn cars, inject drugs - and express all the darkest sides of their nature against which the scenery can mount no protest.”

From an extract from his forthcoming book ‘The Architecture of Happiness‘.