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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 975 Radical Libertarian Architect: Privatize Public Spaces, Housing, Everything

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Patrik Schumacher, a prominent architect in London, stunned the architecture world last year when he came out against housing subsidies and state-funded art schools, and in favor of privatizing, parks, streets, and other public areas. Instead of groveling and apologizing, he's sticking to his guns.

Show notes for Ep. 975

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 975.

0:03.3

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0:08.1

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0:14.6

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0:30.4

Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. What an interesting guest we have today. It's Patrick Schumacher,

0:35.5

who is an architect and architectural theorist based in London.

0:39.4

He is the principal of the architecture practice Zaha Hadid Architects and has been there since 1988.

0:46.9

He became rather notorious, in particular last year, after delivering a speech before other architects,

0:57.1

on his views of the state of architecture and of what public policy ought to be with regard to public housing, public spaces,

1:03.6

privatization. He gave a sweeping, I guess I would say, Austro-libertarian analysis of pretty much everything, and it just knocked

1:13.7

everybody into some kind of crazed state they haven't quite yet recovered from, and he's not

1:20.5

backing down. He's sticking by what he had to say, and I'm sure you're going to enjoy hearing from him.

1:26.6

Patrick, welcome to the show. Good to talk to you. I'm sure you're going to enjoy hearing from him. Patrick, welcome to the show.

1:28.1

Good to talk to you.

1:29.2

I'm right now looking at this notorious article now from November of 2016,

1:37.6

talking about you.

1:39.3

And, of course, the headline is, the subheadline refers to your extreme views and they're causing outrage and

1:47.4

on and on they don't say that about people who have views opposite of yours they say that about

1:52.1

you in particular and they start off by saying and this is the this is the first sentence of

1:58.5

the article abolish social housing scrap prescriptive planning regulations,

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