Above: Another fractal down. In the 1850's, Paris prefect Eugene-Georges Haussmann carved these boulevards through dense working-class neighborhoods for the benefit of the upper middle class. The doomed communities had human-scale architecture and a robust culture, but were unprotected from large-scale finance. Winter/Spring 1991 RAIN Page 43 Human-level decentralization. Political and economic decentralization, as shown in the space-filling tree below left, must include mutual support among like-minded communities. Today, in contrast (below right), the world economy and its supporting institutions sap nearly all production and resources for the benefit of a few.
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