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- setbacks for democracy
first, how a diebold voting machine can be hacked:
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second, and more urgent:the people’s struggle for direct democracy in Oaxaca, Mexico has become increasingly more deadly. The government has been hiring paramilitary gunmen to fight with protesters. On friday several people were killed including a mexican teacher [...]
- exi
“we have architecture that is so banal and destructive to the human spirit that walking to work is in itself a depressing experience. The streets are shabby and tawdry ans litter-strewn, and the concrete is rain-streaked and graffiti-strewn, and the stairwells of the social-engineering experiments are lined in shit and junkies and graffiti. [...]
- librariations
i just finished reading “Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living” which was a quick intersting read. I’ve never read much about landscape architecture or its history but I feel more prepared now to learn about it. The book focused mostly on the (very modernist) social agenda in Eckbo’s designs. That modernist social agenda in architecture [...]
