#hippodamus

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[sekerlivanilinn]

İnsan ağlarken tek bir şeye ağlayamıyor ki. Sanki tüm kötü olaylar kapı ardı bekliyorlarmış gibi, koşup gelip, ardı arkası kesilmeyen damlalara bir yenisini ekliyorlar. Ee tabi sarılacak kimse olmayınca, gece 3'te annenizi arayıp sesine sarılıyorsunuz. Hele bir de babanız araya girip, ‘nolmuş’ diye sorarsa… Yüreğinizin en sert rüzgarı, ruhunuzu bir sonbahar yaprağı gibi titretip, koparıp, atıyor dalından. Tam 12 saatlik mesafeye savurup, bahara kadar ömrünüzü kitliyor. … Sonra yüzünüzü kalbinizden yana çevirip, sabaha kadar onun ne kadar güzel uyuduğunu izliyorsunuz. Ve o herşeye inat, o kadar güzel uyuyor ki, damarlarınızdaki kan kaynayıp, ateş gibi kavuruyor yüreğinizi. Bin ile mi, milyon ile mi çarpılıyor, bilmiyorum ama, sizi öyle bir çarpıyor ki bu aşk, kirpiklerinin her tanesini, yüzünüze vuran her nefesini alıp, saklayıp, kimsenin ulaşamayacağı yerlere koyasınız geliyor. Aşk diyor ilah aşk, bana da olsa, ona da, aşk aşktır. En çok ilk düşeni yakar.

Milla. (bkz. nereli derlerse, miletli'ymiş dersiniz.)

[maptitude1]

This 1908 map of Piraeus, Greece, shows the gridded layout attributed to Hippodamus of Miletus in 451 BC.

[politicaltheory-blog-blog]

Aristotle, Politics, 2.8

A. There is nothing too particular to say about Aristotle's critique of Hippodamus, except to note that once more he is raising against the prototypical rationalist urban planner all the patient, practical, humdrum objections that are most effective at bringing down such adolescent visions of perfection: the constant question is, "how will this work"? "In all of these things there is much confusion." (71)

B. But one of Hippodamus' proposed reforms - giving people a reward for discovering something useful to the city, by which I thought originally he was referring to patents on new technologies, but which the footnote reveals is referring to beneficial legal innovations, or "discoveries" of corruption and error in administration and the like (which Aristotle opposes because he thinks it will lead to blackmail and frivolous criticism) - this reform raises the question "whether it is harmful or advantageous for cities to change traditional laws, if some other one should be better." (72) Here Aristotle places an incisive limitation on "policy science." Policy changes must take into account not only whether a law would be an improvement, but whether the improvement would be worth the difficulty of changing people's habits. Policy, law - political science - is not like other sciences, such as medicine, where there is no reason not to adopt an advance in technique or knowledge. "Change in an art is not like change in law: for law has no strength with respect to obedience apart from habit, and this is not created except over a period of time. Hence the easy alteration of existing laws in favor of new and different ones weakens the power of law itself." (73) There is a benefit to habit that is not reducible - that is in addition to - the benefit of what the habit actually is. I am reminded now of Oakshott's critique of the Rationalist impatience with habit as such; only the content of the habit, whether it is more or less "rational," matters to them (he [Oakshott] gives the example of changing fashions and standards of modesty in dress).