16. Games With New Frontiers, Alien Rococo, and Paper Money

Greg and Dan, back at it again, talking about Olympics architecture and urbanism, the Housing Crisis 2.0, and the greatest hits from the 60s, 70s and 80s, come back to life as Zombie Capitalism.

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Intro: "Games Without Frontiers," by Peter Gabriel

Outro: "Paper Money," by Montrose

Discussed:

· Beijing Olympics

• 2008 and 2022 games looking very different architecturally – no international superstarchitects
• The official attendees are largely debtor nations – and Russia
• China joins WTO 2001 > Beijing 2008 games the manifestation of that
• Beijing 2008 = Crystal Palace 1851 or Columbian Expo 1893 or maybe NYC 1939
• Shuoguang Big Air by Team Minus
• Koolhaas “Content 2004,” – pivot to China away from WTC rebuild competition
• Skating oval by Populous
• Where’s Ma?

· Other Olympic Riffs

• Montreal 1976 > Quebec secession > L.A. 1984
• The day Modernism died = Biosphere fire Montreal 1976
• Paris 2024 – Urban Air Mobility
• Los Angeles 2028 – The walkable games?

· Safe as Houses?

• NAHB IBS Show
• Single family rentals
• Inflation
• Rents up above core inflation
• CBRE: wildcard scenario – multifamily asset class going from $7T to $37T
• Rent to Own, or Rent Forever?
• Mass-producing neighborhoods with fleet-level management of housing
• Housing became CRE
• Is this the point where we see 3D printing takes off?
  • ICON homes inks deal with Lennar and BIG
  • COBOD 3D live at World of Concrete
• ETH Zurich > Alien Rococo
• What is the future of the “starter home”?
• Rent control – Spain and St. Paul > Capital strike
• Tiger 21

· Greg’s book reccs:

• “Adam Smith” – Peter Goodman: 
• The Money Game, 
• Super Money, 
• Paper Money
• Prefigured the 2008 financial crisis
• Averting Penn Central becoming the Lehman Brothers of the ‘70s
• OPEC and the oil crisis changed everything
• Beginning of the idea of housing as an inflation hedge