(gailf548– flickr/creative commons license) The decline of the movie theater seems inevitable. While profits may be decent right now, it has come at a cost to the movie watcher. A third of the industry’s revenue is from food concessions, …
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Frank Baum put hidden symbols in his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. As a Theosophist, Baum believed in a literal afterlife. Dorothy’s journey in the land of Oz symbolized man’s journey through the afterlife to rebirth. Theosophists wrote about …
(jingdianjiaju2– flickr/creative commons license) Aren’t They Just Mobile Homes? A new craze hit the 1960’s. It was a new kind of house. They looked modern and sleek, small and inexpensive. Best of all they were mobile, so you could move …
Dorothy literally died in the Wizard Of Oz. Like Dorothy said in the film, “But it wasn’t a dream, it was a place… this was a real, truly live place.” 1 The struggles and wonders in the land of …
As one of the founders of the Congress for New Urbanism in Chicago, it should be no surprise that Daniel Solomon is a leading advocate for diverse neighborhoods, pedestrian-oriented communities, and physically defined public spaces. He proposes urban places that …
Creation stories provide a framework for design. The question is not how the universe came to be, but how the universe leads to design. By humanizing nature we can figure out how to design for ourselves. A human framework of …
In 1961, the Modernist movement which had long been theoretical and dormant in America’s architecture began to manifest in our cities. Europe’s Modernist architecture blossomed after World War 2 as an optimistic, thriving economy emerged and as people craved a …
Long before Charles Darwin became the father of the evolution theory, a Roman named Marcus Vitruvius Pollio observed evolution in life forms and made scientific theories of the mankind’s origins.Vitruvius recorded many scientific principles which were well known at his …
The author of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum, was a Theosophist. His book contains hidden references to his Theosophic beliefs about death and the afterlife. The tornado represented Dorothy’s death. Dorothy awoke and found herself in a …
The author of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, was a Theosophist. The cyclone that brought Dorothy to the land of Oz had a literal and symbolic meaning from his religion. The founder of Theosophy, Helena Blavatsky, told …