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It's true! I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe L'Enfant was applying the lessons from 1789...


It's an interesting bit of curiosity how capital design kind of spread from France to the U.S. and then from the U.S. to Canberra. While other purpose built cities, like Brasilia had designs sourced locally.


Brasilia was built a hundred years later


Kinda the point.


It's contagious. Someone, develop a vaccine for this before it spreads... except that at this point the whole globe's caught it, and we seem to be developing an immune response at last.




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