Industrial modernity rendered the city aesthetically unrepresentable.

Evidence

Once, ‘the city could be architecturally designed and mentally represented as a comprehensible habitat’. But with industrialism the city became ‘embedded in abstract systems which could no longer be captured aesthetically in an intelligible presence’. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 95

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Jameson’s ‘cognitive mapping’ and the representability of postmodern space — a key connective to the debate the reader wants to frame. — connects to: Modernist architecture aggressively repudiated the old city while postmodern buildings complacently coexist with it — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 139; High-modernist architecture is blamed for destroying the traditional city; Early modernists saw industrial city life as demanding a fundamentally new art — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 143

Broader Connections

• Early modernists saw industrial city life as demanding a fundamentally new art #corroborates (0.85) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 143
• Modernist architecture aggressively repudiated the old city while postmodern buildings complacently coexist with it #expands (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 139
• High-modernist architecture is blamed for destroying the traditional city #complicates (0.72)