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11th January 2021

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My college senior seminar thesis that would’ve become my honors thesis (if I took the ‘nother course of research and review meant to prove me for grad school) was about the split-level house

My take was it was kind of about how less grimy heating made basement rooms practical

And kinda about how adults wanted separation from their dumb boomer kids

But mostly about how WWII trained a generation of men in dozer-concrete retaining wall construction and that rendered more marginally sloped plots viable

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  8. kontextmaschine said: @squareallworthy by the time construction cratered in the 20s a lot of stuff was still at the steam shovel stage, then rebound boom in the late 40s & 50s oft. using war surplus equipment building on less ideal land
  9. kontextmaschine said: @squareallworthy technology existed, but you didn’t see it applied like that as a national standard until the military built up a cohort that knew how to plan and execute projects with it and what kind of things that made practical to build
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    What led you to conclude that it was training rather than improvements in construction technology? I mean, training...
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    My college senior seminar thesis that would've become my honors thesis (if I took the 'nother course of research and...