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It's true! I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe L'Enfant was applying the lessons from 1789...
by vonnik 11y ago
It's true! I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe L'Enfant was applying the lessons from 1789...
- bane 11y agoIt's an interesting bit of curiosity how capital design kind of spread from France to the U.S. and then from the U.S. to Canberra. While other purpose built cities, like Brasilia had designs sourced locally.
- amk_ 11y agoBrasilia was built a hundred years later
- bane 11y agoKinda the point.
- clock_tower 11y agoIt's contagious. Someone, develop a vaccine for this before it spreads... except that at this point the whole globe's caught it, and we seem to be developing an immune response at last.