Architecture is downstream from law.
If your buildings are ugly, inert, overpriced, and impossible to build, the problem is not just aesthetic. It is political.

This week on the pod: Patrik Schumacher on why bad governance produces bad cities.

https://fountain.fm/episode/GGo2awSfGNciGhTGnHnF

It's an intense one this week.
Patrik Schumacher is one of the most important and controversial voices in architecture today.
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Early access for subscribers TODAY...
https://fountain.fm/episode/GGo2awSfGNciGhTGnHnF

Episode 173 is out: Mailyn Salabarria.

If you think tyranny only arrives overnight, this will change your mind. She’s lived the “hard mode” version and explains the “slow mode” version.

Top line: “same dog, different leash.”

Listen now: https://fountain.fm/episode/gSnY6oQPUDolaXJYgXhF

“You can vote your way into socialism, but you can only shoot your way out.”

Subs on @Fountain get early access right now...
https://fountain.fm/episode/gSnY6oQPUDolaXJYgXhF

“‘They’ll stop you!" is usually a reflex, not a refutation.

Incentives protect alternatives more often than people think.


https://fountain.fm/episode/bX3x7eJ73BWcW3wpOiOh

Very popular returning guest on the show this week. Early access for subs on @Fountain until tomorrow...

https://fountain.fm/episode/bX3x7eJ73BWcW3wpOiOh

Special Economic Zones are marketed as “sandboxes for reform”.
Lotta Moberg says that’s often the wrong story.

In this episode we talk incentives, why failing zones can get more funding, and why free cities like Próspera might be a different category entirely.


WATCH: https://fountain.fm/episode/kTVFzEz5YL0pMjWf6DPi

An exit tax is a government admission of failure: they couldn’t make the place attractive, so they make leaving expensive.

Tim Stern is on the podcast this week. We talk incentives, capital flight, and why places like Margarita Island become magnets.

https://fountain.fm/episode/UwKT4mXAS3H0yqrBTz8c

"Get out of Europe".

Tim Stern on the pod this week. Early access today for sub's on v4v...

https://fountain.fm/episode/UwKT4mXAS3H0yqrBTz8c