Episode 492: Alexandra Lange
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Is Better Materials Always Better?
I don't actually believe that better materials are always better. All the malls i like, like the one i talk about in my second chapter, north park, has polished concrete floors and white brick walls. And it's so much nicer than these kind of alienating, super shiny, super hard marble spaces. So i think really, in all tecture, it's all in the way you deploy the materials. It's not about the expense of the material. The other part of your question, i agree all those things should be public goods,. But it is not doing it in new york city, where there are no benches in min station. I think most critics like, we
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