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TheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0617 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: Seeing like a state (legibility and high modernism) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team

“Scott argued that the worst failures of state planning combined four elements: administrative ordering of nature and society, high-modernist ideology, an authoritarian state willing to use coercion, and a prostrate civil society unable to resist.”

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The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília

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