evolutionary architecture
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- mbr0
My point was more that you need to focus on specifics and not make general assumptions. What you are complaining about, which sounds more like urban design than architecture, has little if any to do with the architects.
Architects are, generally speaking, a simple business part to the large puzzle. They are hired to design a single building, then move on. It's not their job to stimulate poor areas of town, restructure badly flowing traffic patterns (either pedestrian or vehicular), etc. Those are the jobs of the city and urban planners. Architects are involved, at times, but this is not their primary role.
Sure, some have proposed utopian solutions, but they are never built and sometimes prove ridiculous (Corbusier's dream would be miserable, in reality, even though he was one of the best architects of all time).
So just keep things in perspective. Architects are hired to design a building, usually a single building, then they move onto the next client, whoever, whereever, and for whatever purpose is needed.
The mess of the cities has much more to do with economics, politics and greed than any architect. That's pretty much it. It's power and money that shape our world, architect or not.