Raymond Craib
@raycraib.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell. Adventure Capitalism: A history of libertarian exit from the era of decolonization to the digital age (PM Press 2022); Cry of the Renegade (OUP 2016); and Cartographic Mexico (Duke UP 2004). Ipswich Town FC.
Reposted by Raymond Craib
As I watch Forest City’s proposal unfold in Suffolk, a plan to build a city for one million people on 45,000 acres of farmland, I’m struck by an eerie familiarity. The same architect. The same libertarian backers. The same progressive rhetoric masking corporate governance.
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
As I watch Forest City’s proposal unfold in Suffolk, a plan to build a city for one million people on 45,000 acres of farmland, I’m struck by an eerie familiarity. The same architect. The same libertarian backers. The same progressive rhetoric masking corporate governance.
Reposted by Raymond Craib
Here’s where the Forest City connection becomes impossible to ignore.
Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, designed Próspera’s initial buildings and sits on its advisory board.
Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, designed Próspera’s initial buildings and sits on its advisory board.
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Here’s where the Forest City connection becomes impossible to ignore.
Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, designed Próspera’s initial buildings and sits on its advisory board.
Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, designed Próspera’s initial buildings and sits on its advisory board.
Respect for the minivan
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Respect for the minivan
Teaching the excellent Offshore in two weeks in my utopia/dystopia/cryptopia seminar.
October 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Teaching the excellent Offshore in two weeks in my utopia/dystopia/cryptopia seminar.