Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Bartel Van De Walle Publisher: Ish Group

Publisher: Ish Group

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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed Bartel Van De Walle Publisher: Ish GroupCompulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusiers urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropicsthe twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? In this wide ranging and original book,