The suburbs. How many of you grew up in the suburbs . Okay, almost all of you. And what kind of adjectives would you use to describe the suburbs . Proud. Nathaniel, i cant hear you. Proud. Proud, okay. Perhaps an unusual choice. Nicholas . Its like being from nowhere. Like being from nowhere. Good. Other descriptions, characterizations . Safe. Safe. K cassidy. Utopia. Emily . Familyoriented. Nicholas, were you going to Say Something . Drew . I loved it. Good. I mean, some people, utopia, maybe this is a different generation. I thought people were going to say lame and boring, which is why i picked this very lame typeface. I thought we would start with an image of contemporary suburbia. This is an engagement shoot, a young couple who have taken to the suburban street for their engagement you know, people get married and they take engagement photos, and this went around the internet for a while and lots of people, including myself, laughed at it. So whats so weird about that . Why does t
Proud. Proud. Okay. Perhaps an unusual choice. Nicholas. Its like being from nowhere. Like being from nowhere. Like being from nowhere . Good. Other descriptions. Characterization. Safe. Safe. Good. As lexi points out. Cassidy. Utopia. A utopia. Emily . Family oriented. Family oriented. Nicholas, were you going to Say Something . No. Drew. I loved it. Okay. Good. I mean, some people, utopia, maybe this is a different generation. I thought people were going to say lame and boring, which is why i picked this very lame typeface. And i thought wed start with an image of contemporary suburbia, which this is an engagement shoot. A young couple whove taken to the suburban street for their engagement. You know, people get married, they take engagement photos. And this was this went around the internet for a while. And lots of people, including myself, laughed at it. So whats so weird about that . Why does this image seem whats the disconnect . Ali . Usually engagement pictures are like at a sc
Day and talks about how changes from home loan policies, mass production and automobiles created urban living. His class is about an hour. So today were talking about the suburbs. How many of you grew up in the suburbs . Okay, almost all of you. And what kind of adjectives would you use to describe the suburbs . Proud. Nathaniel, i cant hear you. Proud. Proud, okay. Perhaps an unusual choice. Nicholas . Its like being from nowhere. Like being from nowhere. Good. Other descriptions, characterizations . Safe. Safe. Cassidy. Utopia. Emily . Familyoriented. Nicholas, were you going to Say Something . Drew . I loved it. Good. I mean, some people, utopia, maybe this is a different generation. I thought people were going to say lame and boring, which is why i picked this very lame typeface. I thought we would start with an image of contemporary suburbia. This is an engagement shoot, a young couple who have taken to the suburban street for their engagement you know, people get married and they
The modern world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. Its easy to say, as i do in my book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ourselves as natural adventurers, risktakers, entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. . I am a believer in american exceptionalism. But as marines like to say, it has to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and . And how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when timeed wholly in that making things when we were extracting them from the earth. We invented almost everything about america. We have constantly reinvented almost everything as we deemed it necessary, including our institutions, our customs, our laws. Above all, our definition of who is american and
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