Today in #Busan, at the 48th session of the @UNESCO World Heritage Committee, a milestone of great significance for our country was reached.
Tashkent’s modernist architecture has been officially inscribed on this organisation’s prestigious international List — the first national nomination from Uzbekistan in 25 years to achieve such distinction.
This is recognition not of individual buildings alone, but of an entire era: the era when, in the aftermath of the earthquake, a new face of #Tashkent took shape — one that brought together modern #architecture, the traditions of Central Asia, and the demands of our climate.
This is a great victory for Uzbekistan and an important step towards preserving our architectural heritage for generations to come.
#Tashkentmodernism
Peter Thiel: If you graduated in 1970 with no student debt, compare that to the millennial experience: too many people go to college, they don’t learn anything, and they end up with incredibly burdensome debt. Student debt is a version of this generational conflict that I’ve talked about for a long time.
The rupture of the generational compact isn’t limited to student debt, either. I think you can reduce 80 percent of culture wars to questions of economics—like a libertarian or a Marxist would—and then you can reduce maybe 80 percent of economic questions to questions of real estate.
It’s extremely difficult these days for young people to become homeowners. If you have extremely strict zoning laws and restrictions on building more housing, it’s good for the boomers, whose properties keep going up in value, and terrible for the millennials. If you proletarianize the young people, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually become communist.”