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Habitat 67 Urban/Suburban Balance • 354 Stacked Prefab Modules • Kirsten Dirksen

Not unlike the Japanese Metabolism movement, or perhaps a human formicarium, Habitat 67 was a 1960s experiment in dense, downtown housing that tried to combine the best of urban and suburban living. Architect Moshe Safdie wanted to integrate the qualities of a suburban home, the access to nature and views into a high-rise. Built for the 1967 World’s Fair at Montreal, Habitat 67 was also a prototype of an affordable “3D modular building system” that he hoped would “reinvent the apartment building.”

What the American Left Got Wrong | An Indigenous Elder’s Diagnosis

Roberto Mendoza—82 years old, six decades of organizing from Alcatraz in 1969 to Standing Rock in 2016—sits down with economist Clara Mattei to name what he thinks went wrong, and why it keeps going wrong. His answer isn’t strategy or messaging. It’s values. And Marxism, he argues, still shares too many of them with capitalism.

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