YouTube thumbnails often try to catch your eye with faux-3D "pop", matting part of the scene over bold title text. Funny to run into the same goofy trope in this 1915 postcard advertising the Panama-Pacific Int'l Expo ("Bear in Mind").
(from "San Francisco's Jewel City")
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(By the way: international exhibitions are consistently so dang wild! Hundreds of acres acquired and prepped, enormous unique buildings designed and built, tens of thousands of exhibits placed, sculpture, murals, landscaping, infrastructure—always all within a couple years!)
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eg: A few months before opening the 1915 PPIE in SF, the water supplier got mired in lawsuits & could supply 10% of drinking water needed! Within a few weeks, engineers bored wells in GGP, found groundwater, invented a way to keep sand out, filtered it, and piped it to the Fair.
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Like, cool, yeah, we'll just build a filtering and chlorinating station and pumps for half a dozen newly-bored wells and a million gallons of fresh water *per day*. The Fair opens next week? Eh, no problem. So inconceivable to imagine in SF today!
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Yes, I do believe that’s the dominant explanation, and agree that it’s appropriate in many cases! I wish there were a better way to reason about trade-offs in such things: hard not to wonder whether we’re actually at the “efficient frontier” for either “side” in a given dispute.
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One story from the PPIE: Virginia Vanderbilt owned 22 blocks of undeveloped land in the Fair area. She wanted to keep it, had to be nudged into selling by threat of eminent domain. Man, was that… good? On any timeline? No idea how to reason about that.
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Curious but please feel extra-free to ignore because it is such a beautiful Sunday and why are we typing: are you optimistic about any eccentric schemes for coordinating land use, such as Georgism, Vickrey auctions / quadratic voting, etc?
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