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What Drives Architects to Design Saudi Megaprojects? w/ Kate Wagner
Tech Won't Save Us
The Politics of Gentrification
I think that the aesthetics of gentrification are really commonly misunderstood. It's caused by speculative developers buying up places on the cheap, displacing residents and raising rents. You know, architecture may be a handmaiden in that, but it's very silly to say that like a building causes gentrification. These are individualist ideas. When the reality is, will fix climate change or prevent climate change or fight against climate change, these are collective struggles and they're political struggles. They're aestheticized, but they're not aesthetic struggles.
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