Vernacular Economics: How Building Codes and Taxes Shape Regional Architecture

The more common response to NYC's setback laws was what Lewis Mumford called the ziggurat, typified by the Paramount Building: https://needled.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/paramount-buildi...

That stepped look became part of Art Deco, though it's hard to say for sure which was cause and which was effect.

Paris has the loveliest architectural tax-avoidance.

These bloody people, always looking for ways to avoid taxes. They should be hanged by their necks and quartered, same as the likes of the corporations hiding their profits in Ireland or tax heavens, leaving the kings and modern kings (elected presidents) without money to spend on their favorite hobbies.

Can you please not post unsubstantive rants to HN? It lowers discussion quality.

You don't need to change your views to post here, but you do need to post in the key of thought, not rage.

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