In the world, there has been and will always be a food chain. Whether this is before or after society, whether the chain is visible or hidden. It’s a chain that binds us all together, imposing burdens on those below, and serving those above. I will describe this in […]
Author yehoshuas
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Winifred Curran’s entire argument is an implied “nature is good, and anything that interferes with nature is bad”. I simply ask: why? Additionally, I will show that Curran’s argument doesn’t make sense intuitively, doesn’t make sense practically, and doesn’t make sense ideologically. Natural is defined as “existing in or caused […]
Sharon Zukin describes in Chapter 1 of her book Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places the rise and fall of authenticity in Brooklyn, and occasionally mentions a similar occurrence in SoHo. I would like to take my turn and describe the […]
Formation: Why and Where Volcanoes form when magma from the Earth’s upper mantle erupt outward, growing bigger with each eruption. This happens because of the Earth having tectonic plates, which converge or diverge at certain locations. We can compare this to New York’s real estate industry. Real estate in New […]
One of Jane Jacobs’s main points in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities is that city planners misunderstand the benefits of city living and only value an ideal that is similar in look to a small town or village. These planners promote a society in which […]
