The Parisian skyline is over a hundred years old
“Paris” as it is renowed world-wide now, is itself an “artificial” government-mandated “success” because its characteristic thousands of deep blue Mansard-topped, 4-story with one 1/2 basement walkup was built from the destroyed prior hodge-podge in the 1700s.
That mandate worked, but the agony of mass destruction at the time is seldom discussed. “Because the king said so” was good enough at the time to squash dissent.