Hozier and Florence Welch are just pseudonyms Hades and Persephone have taken on after haven taken music lessons from Orpheus for a couple thousand years and deciding going into the music industry and gaining “fans” would be a modern equivalent form of the worship that previously sustained them thanks for coming to my ted talk
well suburban houses themselves are just empty shells made from a big melting pot of architectural features with no real coherence and a beige overcoat; they try to emulate the feeling of a home but fail to because of the copy and paste effect of suburbs, the thousands of acres replicating virtually the same cheaply built house.
but i’m more interested in the concept of suburbia as a whole? what really interests me is the alienating impact of this kind of peri-urbanism on the population. everything about suburbs was created to diminish human interaction (which is the opposite of its “utopian” blueprints which aimed for a safe, shared space for people (of the same kind) wishing to flee the aggressiveness of urban life and also accommodate veterans in the post-war era). im fascinated by the obvious artificiality of it all, there’s no residential/commercial area mixing, no real public space, endless curves and cul-de-sac to give this particular never-ending feeling, front lawns and sidewalks that become some kind of sad no man’s land because of the absolute necessity of taking the car to do literally anything. everything about the design of these commuter towns is fucked up and symptomatic. i just think urbanism and collective architecture in general is a useful tool to understand the socio-economic climate of a country and american suburbia is a telling example
