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Architectural Uprising Australia shares visualizations of a 1911 plan for the city of Canberra by Ernest Gimson (1864-1919). Obviously they went with something different in the end. It wouldn't be difficult to build this somewhere else in Australia or abroad (New Zealand, Orania, South Africa, California, Texas, Oklahoma etc.). All plans and designs survive in archives. You can read more about the plan and its background here in this blog post by @cusackandrew https://hell.twtr.plus/media/cb642bad51da78bd5de07e125fb65e33102a99ab9a0bed9751501f5046a9ac8c.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e874da9cb3d2b234e29ea1367c6c12839361f0263af623549d99cdc4120b3556.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/74cc6ad82a31c25a503c0c4f32e5548dc679d85295df07cbb0c19aefb78506fc.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/37d248676ba49f25b3b50a1a0efb2e417921b677e4e0c05736a21c1bfcfe0f20.file
Eileen Power (1889-1940), Medieval People. First published in 1924, follows the lives of six individuals during the middle ages. They don't write like this anymore. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/77e3bb9ae61a9ebc475376fa60e3fce5a707705f54703d2d1388d6337b3713ca.file
Architectural Uprising Australia shares visualizations of the original 1912 plan for the city of Canberra by American architect Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937). Obviously they went with something different in the end. It wouldn't be difficult to build this somewhere else in Australia or abroad (New Zealand, Orania, South Africa, California, Texas, Oklahoma etc.). All plans and designs survive in archives. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/cb642bad51da78bd5de07e125fb65e33102a99ab9a0bed9751501f5046a9ac8c.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e874da9cb3d2b234e29ea1367c6c12839361f0263af623549d99cdc4120b3556.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/74cc6ad82a31c25a503c0c4f32e5548dc679d85295df07cbb0c19aefb78506fc.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/37d248676ba49f25b3b50a1a0efb2e417921b677e4e0c05736a21c1bfcfe0f20.file
Built in 2025 by architect Maher Abu Samra in Jordania. (@ArchMaher) https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0ab9418eddb3146d78de42c1931706c88d32e6284a9d94ddd9c7f4b97bc2e6bc.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5ebb5bcf00c4720b56ddb3b77a0f52ac4a8ea1edd83abd27819a7b0ece9a018e.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9006ab9ab29c809783176a76eefa9cc70ebfa6dc4d5122f354520539e9d119e7.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/52a8c27c99108bed48b7765e9662fc54cbaa88fc48e094eebeebb621dfb34824.file
In the old days this would have been done with individual pieces of board and planks cut with tongue and grove and fitted together to form wainscoting or entire walls. Later on plaster mouldings would have given you a far cheaper but similar effect. It is of course ok to do it with mdf panels, paint and glue. Not as long lasting and much more susceptible to marks and scratches, it can still work. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2fa9621173fadce2a5371726fe6a007c1e620a0205f64575f3f078d2d1b4cdc5.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/558dcd2dd509964a1e7803405a0515abd70b11dbe447ab1a0f7dde2977d28596.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/853b24948049a4aa981ed19fc3178bda0cb7fd8f1f47911034dc2461e84208d8.file
RT @Will_Tanner_1@twitter.com: The Pit Bull thing is great because it is much the same as most if our problems: eminently solvable, the solution has no real downsides, and the only reason we don’t press the “solve everything easily switch” is a lack of will Pit bulls are irrationally violent by nature, and as such impossible to trust. They always could and often do just fly off the handle, and wreak immense havoc and carnage as they do so. They account for the vast majority of dog attacks. They have no positives: unlike German Shepherds and other potentially violent dogs, they aren’t stable enough to really be trained into being reliable pets. They’re just loose cannons There’s no reason to keep them around. The obvious solution is to just euthanize them and ban the breeds, along with its cousins (the XL Bully, for example). Problem solved. No downsides But we don’t do that. We lack the will. So instead one always has to keep one’s head on a swivel when put in public, as there are almost always pit bull owners with poorly behaved dogs on a string leash, and that tho g could turn into a missile and maul anyone around at the drop of a hat https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9909f7f3c4204405fd8f9094c7c592f9e40085cd7bbc8bc1d2fd12eeb9df5281.file
Rewording this: Welfare and almost all of public spending has turned into a scam and the only way to fix it is to cancel it for at least two full human generations. Bandaids and reforms won't work anymore. Bring back charity and co-operatives or do without.
There are so many switches. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/efe6e9e4cbfa236150734beb06519f28c74b0fe1301e879d4eb7ec4026f183f4.file