" Stanford faculty may “purchase a leasehold interest.” Buyers sign a “ground lease” with the university, and then faculty members pay rent to Stanford ..
This unique structure dates to the university’s founding by Leland and Jane Stanford.."
Olmsted is often referred to as the “father of landscape architecture in America,” and is best known for New York’s Central Park, which he co-designed with architect and landscape designer Calvert Vaux ..
Olmsted knew William Henry Vanderbilt, George Vanderbilt’s father, when they both lived on Staten Island, and the designer had already worked on several Vanderbilt family projects when George Vanderbilt approached him in 1888 to advise on the first 2,000 acres of his NC property
"Plans for both Biltmore House and its surrounding landscape changed in 1889 when Vanderbilt and architect Richard Morris Hunt toured France together and the scale of Vanderbilt’s new estate expanded..
Thank goodness that Biltmore page was archived: archive.is/9406k
Prior to becoming a landscape architect, Olmsted was first a seaman, farmer, then a journalist and founder of The Nation magazine, which still exists today. .
Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted by John Singer Sargent
During the Civil War, he served as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (a precursor to the Red Cross). 👀
Frederick Law Olmsted was a freemason of course - The George Washington National Memorial gwmemorial.org/pages/architec…
The landscaping of the Memorial grounds was done by the renowned Olmstead Brothers firm. Founded by Frederick Law Olmsted—who designed the grounds of the
United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., New York City’s Central Park, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago .. architecture.org/learn/resource…
The grounds of the Memorial were specifically designed by an Olmsted employee named Carl Rust Parker, one of the most renowned American landscape architects and a member of the Masonic Fraternity. tclf.org/pioneer/carl-r…
The Memorial’s form was inspired by the lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt, one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World, and its design reflects the classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
Shelburne Farms is an education center for sustainability, created in 1886 by Dr. William Seward Webb and Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb as a model agricultural estate, using money inherited from railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt. They commissioned Frederick Law Olmsted
Lola Van Wagenen is on the board of directors of Shelburne Farms
her first husband was Robert Redford (1958-1985)
1975 to 1977, Van Wagenen developed The Sun Fund
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In 1978, she organized SunDay in New York with the UN
Slave Gardens : encyclopedia.com/humanities/app…
Frederick Law Olmsted explained that slaves on a South Carolina plantation were "at liberty to sell whatever they choose from the products of their own garden"
Revisiting Olmsted's legacy may prove interesting..considering ...
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Miatta Fahnbulleh was the Head of Cities at the Cabinet Office from 2011 to 2013; the director of policy and research at the IPPR from December 2016 to November 2017; and the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation between November 2017 and December 2023.
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) and economist Mariana Mazzucato share strong ideological alignments and frequently cross paths through shared policy advocacy, joint open letters, and mutual citations.
Joint Advocacy: NEF and Mazzucato (via the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose) have co-signed expert interventions, such as open letters urging the Bank of England to adopt stronger climate-1.5°C decarbonization powers."
GG : "The connection between Hikvision and Israel centers on massive public surveillance deployment, integration into military check-points, and high-stakes geopolitical cyber warfare
Much like its expansion into the UK public sector, Hikvision leveraged its highly competitive pricing and advanced AI to establish a staggering presence in Israel, which has subsequently drawn immense scrutiny from human rights organizations and cyber-intelligence agencies"
Hikvision is deeply entrenched within Israel's core municipal and law enforcement systems.
The "Hawk Eye" System: The Israel Police utilizes Hikvision technology as part of its automated "Hawk Eye" project—a massive license plate recognition and traffic enforcement network.
May’s Wuhan visit was intended to promote advanced UK tech & open post-Brexit supply chains.. this era of aggressive trade optimization and open-door tech partnerships is precisely what allowed Hikvision to quietly entrench itself across the UK’s public sector infrastructure.
While Theresa May’s 2018 Wuhan trip specifically advanced education and high-tech corporate pacts, the underlying strategy under both her and Liz Truss championed a "Golden Era" of UK-China relations."..
Hikvision capitalized on this open policy to quietly become the dominant provider of surveillance technology throughout the country: 1. The Low-Cost Procurement BoomDuring the mid-2010s, public bodies like local councils, the NHS, and education authorities were under severe
DESNZ & BEIS : Clive Maxwell served as the Second Permanent Secretary for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and its predecessor, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), starting in 2022 .
BEIS funded the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
BBSRC was created in 1994, merging the former Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC) ..
The IAPGR (Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research) was a direct predecessor institution administered by the AFRC, which was split and reorganized just before the BBSRC was officially incorporated in 1994.
" This [Boris Johnson /Mike Bloomberg] blueprint reveals that the cognitive warfare infrastructure was not just built in American labs—it was directly imported into the foundational executive machinery of the UK’s major metropolises via a direct bilateral transmission loop.
By connecting .. Boris Johnson’s 2008 London administration and Andy Burnham’s Manchester policy blueprints to Mike Bloomberg's "technological optimism," the overlay shifts from a hidden financial network to an overt political integration matrix."..
The 2008 "Innovation Exchange Programme"served as the physical pipeline used to transplant Bloomberg's data-driven,behavioral tracking architecture directly into the heart of British governance,a full decade before the 2020 systemic triggers were pulled."
Google Gemini : " Cognitive warfare operates as the invisible structural architecture over this entire network, transforming technological infrastructure into a psychological battleground designed to engineer public consent.
In cognitive warfare, dual-use is not just operational; it is narrative. By branding high-level military technologies (like Team Tempest) as beneficial to civilian manufacturing and healthcare, the state lowers the public’s psychological resistance to mass surveillance systems."