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No point to billionaires if they're not funding giant public works projects
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:28 PM Author: JDpon Don At a loss Designing and developing, not just giving $ to legacy institutions like colleges or charities for the tax bennies Billionaires used to build out entire city blocks pre-FDR |
Date: February 27th, 2025 8:29 PM Author: med compliance day at the born yesterday clinic Now they just build brain torture chips and get endlessly celebrated in the media (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5686734&forum_id=2Elisa#48700310) |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:33 PM Author: JDpon Don The Rockefellers built out scores of acreage in NYC Detroit auto (inflation adjusted) billionaires had their names on whole yuge swathes of the downtown area Now? Alive girl, new Reaganite WaPo, toxic glue brain torture chip, Warren Buffet smugly lecturing proles on "investing long" with 30 year windows, PoE2 stolen gamer valor |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:53 PM Author: JDpon Don Walking around Philadelphia you'd see a guy's name on patronage plaques on 15-20 buildings around e.g. independence hall Google him later and you find he was some wealthy guy who used his fortune to be a "city father" (a dead concept, these days?) and give patronage to a small network of architects and urban planners. These sorts of things give a city identifiable clusters of coherent soul and generally work to increase the cohesiveness of visual language within neighborhoods and blocks (very important for establishing a city's identity and fraternal sensibilities that flow out from that) |
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Date: March 3rd, 2025 4:14 AM Author: JDpon Don https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262515030/brandscapes/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5686734&forum_id=2Elisa#48709266) |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:34 PM Author: Oh, You Travel? ( ) Charlie Munger tried this kind of and people were horrified. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munger_Hall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5686734&forum_id=2Elisa#48700324) |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:35 PM Author: JDpon Don Tbf that sounds horrible at a glance Let me see if his proposed design is up anywhere |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:40 PM Author: Oh, You Travel? ( ) I think the idea was to make the dorm rooms Ruinous and the common areas appealing in order to encourage students to mingle or Synergize. But in practice people would probably just do exactly what they do now but in Worse Rooms (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5686734&forum_id=2Elisa#48700342) |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:41 PM Author: JDpon Don College students need a lot of sunlight and privacy to really flourish. Not much space needed but some amount of dignity in the space they do have allotted is vital (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5686734&forum_id=2Elisa#48700347) |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:46 PM Author: JDpon Don A small Costco being built in the hall is pretty clever and probably a smart and profitable thing to give students walking access to There are some good ideas there but actual "living space" is treated like an afterthought (and this is characteristic of the spirit of this era) |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:56 PM Author: Oh, You Travel? ( ) Iirc the dorms were Singles with their own shower which seems civilized tbh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5686734&forum_id=2Elisa#48700386) |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 9:01 PM Author: JDpon Don The resolution on the actual proposal makes it too hard to tell what the metric of reference is for sizes but this is some of the concept art for the living area https://architexturez.net/file/30xp-munger-render-02-jumbo-jpg It looks like there are two showers per cluster of 8 dorms and rooms aren't much bigger than the space in a cubicle |
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Date: March 3rd, 2025 4:16 AM Author: JDpon Don Also sharing a kitchen with TWO people was unbearable ime, can't even imagine 8 That's worse than the old kolkhoz, comrade |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:40 PM Author: JDpon Don https://architexturez.net/file/e858dce299612e02a2920d713dd2be84-jpg https://architexturez.net/pst/az-cf-222394-1635223591 https://architexturez.net/pst/az-cf-222396-1635223608 Very creepy bugman stuff |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:38 PM Author: JDpon Don The areas that aren't domiciles don't look too bad The actual dorm arrangements are worse than Cabrini Green though |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:59 PM Author: flw toady The might of a nation is measured by the wealth and power of its billionaires. The little people simply don't matter at all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5686734&forum_id=2Elisa#48700394) |
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Date: March 3rd, 2025 4:13 AM Author: JDpon Don There was a time before merit was measured by wealth, I'm told (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5686734&forum_id=2Elisa#48709265) |
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Date: February 27th, 2025 8:59 PM Author: .,.,.,.,,,.,,.,.,.,.,.,,.,,.,,,.,,.,,.,.,, Found a university at least. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5686734&forum_id=2Elisa#48700397) |