reading crustacean quoted Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased …
Although the geometric, uniform forest was intended to facilitate management and extraction, it quickly became a powerful aesthetic as well. The visual sign of the well-managed forest, in Germany and in the many settings where German scientific forestry took hold, came to be the regularity and neatness of its appearance.
— Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies) (Page 18)
The Germans are at it again... color me surprised. they even invented something called the "Normalbaum" lol.
this is the kind of forest we still have in many areas of germany btw
