Youtube hearted comments of Gabe (@gabetalks9275).

  1. It's amazing to me how mid-20th Century humanity collectively made all the wrong decisions possible. We traded sustainability, beauty, and urbanism that was once working wonders for everyone for greed, ugliness, and segregation. Even when the economic bubble is bursting and the planet is being rapidly destroyed for short-term profit, we still continue to destroy ourselves in name of greed and hatred for our fellow humans. It's sickening.
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  2. One thing that I've noticed about our culture is that it wasn't until recently that the general public has started to even acknowledge the past. I remember growing up as a kid that our culture looked upon the older generations as fools with outdated technology and outdated beliefs. Replacing the old with the new was seen as progress, but we were too arrogant to realize that our ancestors had wisdom that was worth learning from. If we've been building beauty and walkability since ancient times, is there not a reason for it? I remember one of my school teachers talking to our class about how outdated trains are because they're slower and the routes are predetermined. I don't even remember what grade I was in, but I just looked at the photos of old trains in our history book thinking that was such an obvious conclusion, not even realizing that we once boasted the greatest railways on Earth, even by today's standards. Something that should've been passed down us with great pride was looked down upon as "outdated" and reduced to mostly forgotten history. It infuriates me when people say that America is "too big" for rail when the entire continent was already fully connected by rail over a century ago. Please continue this series. We need more Americans to know just how much was truly stolen from them.
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  3. ReThinkNYC needs to win. Not just because the original Penn Station is one of America's most iconic and important landmarks, and an artistic treasure, but also because the station needs that massive space. Hochul's plan is just a renovation and expansion, which isn't enough, because MSG is still taking up the vast majority of the space. Transit needs to be the priority. Not built around an arena.
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  4. This video is honestly so refreshing. I keep seeing this very prevalent sentiment that if it's not Beaux-Art, then it's ugly. It's so nice to see architecture starting to be seen as a form of local cultural expression again, rather than just something that needs to be either extremely grand or "innovative" solely for the sake of being different. There's actually another example of a city prioritizing traditional beauty in the US. Newburyport, Massachusetts. Modernists were beginning to bulldoze their historic downtown into a car-centric mall until the residents rallied together to save it. They rebuilt their downtown for pedestrians and made restoring the unified colonial character of the neighborhood a priority. The Rural Urbanist made a great video about it, and there's even a documentary about it.
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  5. There's actually a growing movement to rebuild Old Penn Station. A proposal created by local advocacy group ReThinkNYC have created designs and renderings of a rebuild Penn Station by three architects, and it has the support of other architects and the National Civic Arts Society. I really hope it's successful. The destruction of Old Penn Station was a crime against the arts. A heinous act of public vandalism.
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  6. When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it was a piece of artwork. Probably some 3D rendering or something. But this... This is mesmerizing, yet extremely weird to look at. It's looks both real and animated at the exact same time.
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