Reading Time: 5 minutes Nature and wilderness aren’t just a waste of space.
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The Fountainhead: Flyover States
Reading Time: 4 minutes For a conservative, Ayn Rand was a surprising embodiment of the “coastal elitist” stereotype.
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The Fountainhead: Bridge and Tunnel
Reading Time: 6 minutes Suburban sprawl and the real costs of commuting.
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The Fountainhead: White Picket Fence
Reading Time: 5 minutes Suburbs, white flight, and the enduring legacy of American racism.
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The Fountainhead: Gangs of New York
Reading Time: 6 minutes Why Randian heroes are genetically superior; how cities are designed to keep the poor and the homeless out.
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The Fountainhead: Crimes Against Architecture
Reading Time: 5 minutes The life, death and rebirth of Pennsylvania Station.
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The Fountainhead: City of God
Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s more than one kind of religious architecture.
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The Fountainhead: Famous Failures
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Roark building collapse that didn’t happen, but should have.
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The Fountainhead: Wool and Linen
Reading Time: 6 minutes The view of architecture as a language shows what’s so absurd about Roark’s stubbornness and arbitrary rules.
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The Fountainhead: Americans with Disabilities
Reading Time: 6 minutes A house that my elderly family members can get around in? Who cares about that?