쉐도잉 연습: your city is full of fake buildings, here's why - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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This building isn't real.
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None of these are.
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Around the world, there are dozens of buildings that look ordinary on the outside, but hide a secret behind locked doors and blacked out windows.
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There's like a little gated area here, so I'm gonna try and just look.
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So I rounded up my friends to figure out what's inside and why they exist.
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One of these buildings is not real, but I can't figure out which one that is.
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I always thought fake buildings were an urban legend.
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You know something neighborhood kids say to explain that house on the block whose lights never turn on.
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Just adding some spice to the suburbs.
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I basically forgot all about it until I was scrolling on the internet one day and I saw this photo.
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It might not look like it but this is is an oil rig.
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And I thought, no way, that can't be true.
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Otherwise everyone would know about it, right?
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So I spent the next few days digging deeper and learning that not only are fake buildings real, they are way more common than you might expect.
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It's not just LA, there's New York, Paris, Toronto.
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I'm in Toronto, and I've never heard of this, so I gotta get a closer look.
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Yo, what's up?
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What?
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Can I ask you a favor?
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Sure, I'm so tiny.
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Am I legally obligated to say yes?
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Yes.
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Fine.
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You're going to New York, right?
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Yes, for the pizza video.
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Nice.
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While you're there, could you go to the buildings that I am sending you right now?
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Okay.
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Are they safe?
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This is not in my country.
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Yeah, it's like Paris, which is like what?
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A two minute walk from the UK?
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Please.
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So you're gonna go?
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Nice.
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Sick.
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Thank you!
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That's two!
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We got them!
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Okay.
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Go, what are you doing?
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I'm hanging up now, bye!
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Now while those two do that, I'm gonna explore Toronto.
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Once the seatbelt sign has been turned off...
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Okay, so I am currently in a, uh, like a town square, um, and one of these buildings is not real,
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but I can't figure out which one that is. So...
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Oh, okay.
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Uh, yeah, I've just seen it.
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Okay, it's probably at this point that I should explain what I mean by fake buildings.
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Like, what are we looking at?
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These buildings are not designed to mimic the architecture of a different place.
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Nor are they empty shells for movie sets.
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These buildings are different.
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What we've got here is probably best described by the photographer Robin Collier
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when he He said that buildings like these ones are forms pretending to be something other than their function.
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The form is usually made to blend into the surroundings, to look like any other apartment in the city or house in a neighborhood.
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This is?
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Oh, somebody lives here.
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Okay, I found the right house.
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This is legitimately not scripted, but I just walked past the fake building.
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What I was getting confused by was this is all apartment buildings, and then this, this right here, you can kind of see that this is all fake.
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But not all fake buildings are that convincing.
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I'll have to tell you.
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Well, it's underwhelming.
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It just exists.
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But all these buildings exist so that the function, whatever is inside, doesn't disrupt the visual atmosphere.
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So what's inside?
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It all starts with the sign on the door.
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High voltage, keep out.
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There's like a little gated area here.
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So I'm gonna try and just look.
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Okay, can I just...
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Woop.
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Sick.
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This is an electrical substation, and it's the only thing inside this house.
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Holy shit.
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This is what it looks like when it's not in a fake house.
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Basically, it transforms electricity from the really dangerous high-voltage energy generated
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in a power station to something you can safely use in your home.
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But it's not just Toronto.
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There are plenty of places with hidden substations.
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And this is a fake building.
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It is actually an electrical transformer.
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And you can tell it's a transformer
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because there are a bunch of you will be electrocuted
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and die signs on the one door that lets you into the building.
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Other than that, it is basically just a wall.
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However, fake buildings disguise more than just substations.
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There are those oil rigs in LA, cell phone towers in church steeples, a nuclear bunker in an Essex cottage, a pump station in North Carolina,
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and in high-density places with tunnels for cars or trains, there are disguised ventilation shafts.
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On the map, this building doesn't actually have a roof.
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It's just a massive hole.
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So, this place was gutted by New York's IRT in the
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1900s to bring fresh air into the subway system to avoid carbon monoxide buildup and to serve as an emergency exit.
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So, that is what fake buildings are usually hiding.
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But why do these things need to be hidden in the first place?
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I figured it was a safety measure to prevent curious urbanites from accidentally electrocuting themselves or falling down a ventilation shaft.
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But it turns out the actual answer is hard to find because I don't think we were supposed to care this much.
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Fake buildings are basically just gift wrapping on a box, icing on a cake.
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Like we discovered, the important thing is what's inside.
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A result of this is
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that there doesn't seem to be a lot of energy put into documenting the story of the outside.
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Which makes my question of why make very realistic fake buildings very hard to answer.
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So I decided to try and start at the beginning and look into the history of fake buildings nearby.
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Okay, so I think I might have something.
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Back in the 1900s when electricity was really new and exciting, they put these substations in these really grandiose buildings.
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This was around the same time that that dude was building this castle in Toronto before he bankrupted himself.
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But the good times can't last forever and World War II rolls around.
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Not good!
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Famously!
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Economic hardship, rationing comes into play and a bunch of people are moving towards the city to work in manufacturing, rapidly forming a bunch of suburbs.
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And what do they need?
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Ah, I wish I had like an animation. Can I...
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Ooh!
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I got it.
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But what do they need?
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Electricity!
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So Toronto's power company is faced with a situation where they need a bunch more substations in residential areas
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and they need to be cheap to make.
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What do they do?
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Well, I found this blog post.
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Specifically, I found this comment under the blog post.
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It says that their mother says that their grandfather, Harold Bodwell, was tasked with designing substations to fit in, so he chose houses.
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Genius!
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But can we trust the comment?
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We gotta corroborate.
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So, I found this other article that also credits Harold Bodwell.
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Unfortunately, in the very next sentence, they misspell his name.
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Red flag, but we persist.
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So I go into Toronto's archive of city directories, flip back to the early 1900s, and who do I find but a draftsman named Harold A.
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Bodwell.
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So his middle name starts with an A.
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What can we do with that?
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Except go to the Bodwell family homepage.
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It is an online family tree for all North Americans with the last name Bodwell.
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Is your last name Bodwell?
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You're probably on this.
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And who do I find except for Harold Alfonso Bodwell?
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And he has a kid, Marion Colton, who, in 1937, marries Richard Reed Smith.
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And their child could be none other than M.S.
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Smith!
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I don't know what this proves.
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I just know that I spent the last two days putting it together.
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I think the thing that's bothering me is the fact that these are electricity services, transit systems, oil companies.
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They are not known for caring a lot about their impacts on the environment.
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So why do it?
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Why are they covering up their infrastructure in fake buildings that are so realistic that you might walk by and never notice?
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So I tried to look at more modern sources and watched webinars and town halls.
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Double speed playback was humanity's most important invention.
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I spread my research out to other countries.
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L'Architecture?
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De La Rue.
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I don't speak French.
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I also realized that the UK has fake buildings and Taha did not need to go to Paris.
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My lawyers will be in contact.
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Ooh.
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It's fun.
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So I think I have an answer.
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Or a theory.
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Two theories.
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Theory 1 starts in a neighborhood with a need, like power, ventilation, or sewage.
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The kind of utility infrastructure that overall improves lives, but can negatively impact its immediate neighbors, leading to the nickname NIMBY facilities,
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or Not In My Backyard.
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The arguments against these facilities are usually based in lifestyle and investment conflicts, with residents fearing the loss of neighborhood resources,
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potential danger, and other consequences that not only make living in a community less pleasant, They can also harm property value, which alienates people who see housing as an investment,
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instead of a human right.
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I understand a lot of these concerns, but sometimes it's just straight up whack.
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Listen to this dude talk about a parking lot.
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This parking lot is a hub.
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It's the heart of the community.
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It's the hub.
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Now here's him talking about unhoused people.
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To increase the population density here with 64 units of people going through the most troubling, difficult times of their lives,
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this may not be the appropriate place to do it.
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Unaffordable house?!
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But motives aside, people with NIMBY mentalities can be incredibly influential in North American urban design.
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It's because they tend to participate more in local politics, which informs things like zoning laws.
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So theory one is that developers with essential projects will cover them in incredibly realistic fake houses
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just to protect the property value and lifestyles of people with NIMBY mentalities.
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Bummer!
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But what about theory two?
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What about.. this, what an undisguised substation actually looks like.
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There's a bunch of metal rods and signs that promise they will kill you.
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Imagine if that was your neighbor.
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So theory two for why we have fake buildings is just good urban design.
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Our environment can impact our health simply by how it's designed.
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It influences our sense of safety and the way we socialize.
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Aesthetic justice theorizes that just like clean air and access to education, well-designed environments are also a social good, one that can improve our quality of life.
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If that's true, then it just makes sense to approach designing the form with as much thoughtfulness as we do the function.
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Because a substation that powers the neighborhood can also make the person next door feel anxious.
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It's just a bit scary.
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And a ventilation shaft that clears the air can become the center of mysteries and conspiracies.
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So theory two is that designers recognize
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that good function can't exist without good form and they decided that the best form may sometimes be one that fits in.
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Into the hearts of cities or quiet suburbs all around the world.
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Unremarkable until you take a closer look.
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Except for this building.
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