They viewed the city in essentially functional terms; their flagship urban projects were mostly large-scale bits of infrastructure such as housing estates and a light-rail system.
A group of designers and architects who helped redevelop art of rundown housing estate in northwest England have won the prestigious Turner Prize for contemporary art.
But everywhere we are all chipping away at life itself: housing estate by housing estate, garden by garden, paving stone by paving stone, roll of plastic grass by roll of plastic grass.