" 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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"The "Manchester Model" was heavily shaped by Michael Bloomberg's philosophy on municipal executive leadership. Weeks after his initial 2017 mayoral election, Andy Burnham attended an intensive leadership program in New York funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies ..
Michael Bloomberg's philosophy on municipal executive leadership focuses on running cities like data-driven corporations rather than traditional political machines.
The UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment directly translates this philosophy of data-driven governance
into academic research and actionable municipal policy.
The connection between Michael Bloomberg’s executive leadership style & UCL Bartlett is concrete, driven primarily by the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) within the faculty:
GG" The progression of Rick Rubin > Diddy > Rick James charts a spectrum from zen minimalism to unhinged maximalism, both in musical production style and lifestyle."
Jack Dorsey operates with the exact same philosophy of "extreme reduction" in the tech world that Rick Rubin
pioneered in the music studio. The two are close personal friends and frequent creative collaborators."
GG: "The Graphene Flagship is a European Union scientific research initiative. ..Europe's direct counterweight to the U.S. quantum funding strategy: the Quantum Technologies Flagship, which operates alongside the Graphene Flagship and the Human Brain Project."..🤔
This creates a high-stakes, cross-continental competition between two fundamentally different economic and scientific models:
1. The U.S. Commercial/Venture Model (Howard Lutnick) 2. The European Union Collaborative Model (The Flagships)
GG : "If you'd like to continue, let me know if we should zoom in on a specific person from this summary, explore the technical code behind Keras and OSINT tools, or map out another institutional overlap?"
The invitation-only networking dinner is an exclusive, high-level gathering tied to The Responsible AI Forum. This event brings together global elite figures to discuss artificial intelligence governance, regulation, and its societal impact.. "🎶
The dinner is traditionally hosted at Spencer House in St. James's, London.🎶
Spencer House is a magnificent 18th-century aristocratic palace. The late Lord Jacob Rothschild (through his family’s business empire and charitable vehicles, including RIT Capital Partners and..
Interesting that Kurt Lewin studied the use of terror to achieve mind control., and that Ole Miss where Saad has a position as a vising scholar, is also involved with trauma studies, given that Saad often refers to his own Lebanese family trauma fleeing war-torn Lebanon.
Gemini : "This synthesis binds the historical evolution of social psychology to the personal history of the intellectuals studying it today. ..
1. Kurt Lewin,"Unfreezing," & the Psychology of Terror
Kurt Lewin —the founder of modern social psychology who worked in that exact MIT/Harvard nexus linked to Tavistock—pioneered the study of how extreme psychological stress can be used to completely restructure human behavior.