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Tag Archives: Food for Thought
Food for Thought: Thomas Paine
There could be no such thing as landed property originally. Man did not make the earth, and, though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity any part of it.
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Posted in Culture, Food for Thought, History, What if?
Tagged agrarian justice, Food for Thought, property rights, real estate, thomas paine
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Food for Thought: Sebastian Mariscal
A city is about diversity, so shouldn’t its architecture be, too?
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Posted in architecture, Culture, Food for Thought
Tagged 100 Houses we Love, architecture, cities, diversity, Dwell, Food for Thought, Sebastian Mariscal
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Food for Thought: A Greek Proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Continue reading
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Tagged Food for Thought, forethought, future generations, greek proverb, Sustainability
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Food for Thought: David Byrne (Again)
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe—but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry—poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs—is how the world works. The world isn’t logical, it’s a song.
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Posted in art, Culture, Food for Thought, What if?
Tagged Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne, dreamlike, Food for Thought, how the world works, poetry
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Food for Thought: David Byrne
Throughout the world the International Style, as the Museum of Modern Art calls it, has been used as an excuse for every bunkerlike structure, atrocious housing project, lifeless office building, and ubiquitous, crumbling third-world concrete housing block and office. Crap the world over has the imprimatur of quality because it apes, albeit badly, a prestigious style…
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