Although it would be necessary to make a distinction between those projects that have been or are able to further a new "idea of the city" and those that are simply replicas of pre-existing urban paradigms by looking at few relevant cases in the history of architecture, analyzing these projects makes it immediately clear that designing a city from scratch is actually not a rare task that few architects might have to confront during their careers, but perhaps the most challenging design exercise, one in which the scope, possibilities and limits of our discipline are pushed to their extremes and where the operative capacity of the instruments of our work is fundamentally put to the test.
Se trata de un ejercicio de diseño sin duda equivalente al mayor reto arquitectónico, uno en el cual el alcance, el potencial y los límites de la disciplina son llevados hasta el extremo, poniendo a prueba la capacidad operativa de los instrumentos propios del trabajo del arquitecto. El proyecto de una ciudad es un oxímoron.