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The whole point of architects from the get-go is to have somebody design something different from what the masses have !

A friend of mine wrote about neo-pastiche in Plessis-Robinson, France in Archiscopie magazine. He showed me very impressive images of styrofoam shaped as greek, roman and hausmannian elements sprayed with a cheap render slapped on a concrete building that end up gentrifying neighborhoods. Perhaps a low quality, poorly performing, ecologically irresponsible building is what you want ? I'd rather be paying for what I consider important for a building (longevity, ecology and thermal efficiency) than some esthetical addendum.

In the end, the construction industry is really a deciding factor : you only see, as a classic survivorship bias phenomena, what the best building with all the money in the world looked like, ie cathedrals, palaces, and expect every building to have the same standard today. It is not realistic, nor responsible. Cheap building for the masses have always been the norm!

I'm more in awe of his voluntary engagement into world war 2 and later into the resistance. His world war 1 participation was obligatory anyway, and WW1 was an aimless conflict.

Beside his indispensable academic work, Bloch really is a reminder to walk the talk -- no matter your age and position.

This is great, heard somebody get fined on a line I took once in France. Just hits the spot!

Interesting article and methodology. I wish you could play with the ranking features to see how the ranking evolves.

I didn't know Kevin Munger. You could definitely seen regarding his field and publications why he would weight 25% of the score to the methodology citations though. Which is partly why his index is very flawed, seeing how qualitative endeavors would be squashed (Qualitative methodologies being very dependant on context). Maybe it does bridge a gap between disciplines that are quantitatively oriented ; STEM and social sciences. The humanities would be nowhere though.

It does beg the question of rankings to begin with ... A dean should know better than to statsmaxx (note the irony).

No : rights were put in place because poor people struggled to get them ; the governments then placed hurdle to "control" expenses. On garanteeing housing, the only thing that works to get people out of the streets is state controlled housing. But maybe getting things built is more important ?

Controlling real estate supply should be in every local government playbook.

Great memory, great reference!

I don't know you but I doubt you're largely responsible for the climate crisis. What I mean is that the "we" is a unsteerable concept. As such, I don't consider myself responsible. I do as much as my limited power lets me (also i guess I could resort myself to more potent ways of political expression). People that have power are responsible.

What do you mean by "go" ? Talk ?

I must say right of the bat this is the best research paper/working paper in regards to its styling. Beautiful

I wonder if submerged system with coolant could mitigate this ?

What's crazy is that there is a shot in the car where a guy is reading to the driver ! Never have I seen that elsewhere, but what a brilliant idea !

I was equally stunt, but get this : Visa wants to know how much people are going to spend using their services. This is not a sound socio-economic analysis of the wealth transfer. I think overall few people read this type of report.

Instead, it gives insight on a phenomenon that is expected to be an "event". They show that it's going to be gradual, that it already started. Maybe it is a way to inform potential investors in Visa ? Maybe it is a report intended for the business side customers (i.e. commerces) ? I don't know.

Plus, it gives an interesting insight on how the "_real_" economy is still a topic of research where every discourse seem to be on financial performances. I found it interesting after having a repulsed reaction to what I considered a grossly irrelevant account of socio-economic dynamics of the so called "great wealth transfer" (horrible name), like you.