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Why has no one mentioned Foucault yet? I don't really know much about him (and don't like the post-structuralism and doomerist tendencies) but he did set out to answer the question "Why does everything look like a prison?" In his book "Discipline and Punish". E.g. Schools, barracks, offices all tend to have long straight, easy to surveil hallways and so on. He said it's all part of something he calls the "carceral system" dominating society.
Also, there are some actually beautiful schools in Germany with nice round hallways, organic design, lots of greenery, open spaces, gardens with flowers and vegetables etc. but they cost lots of money for tuition, and are lead by a weird anti science sect with Nazi tendencies (Waldorf).
it goes even further, ostensibly paris was greatly rebuilt under napoleon III to have those wide straight avenues to make crowd control easier in case paris riots again
Yes, and it worked. Those avenues were used to murder the people of the Paris commune.