| Sumario: | Thomas Jefferson, who extolled the moral virtues of the land over what he considered the evils of the city, invented the idea of the American campus at the University of Virginia and set a lasting tradition of academia removed from the city in a purer world of its own. Design conferences have followed suit, famously in Aspen, Colorado, and, recently, at the TED conferences in Monterey, California, idyllic places where clean air presumably gives that extra boost of clarity. A legendary design executive, he stated that Detroit, Michigan lost its passion and market position when designers were marginalized, and that design actually now makes the defining difference between cars, which otherwise increasingly exhibit the same standards of engineered performance.
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