When London’s Dragons Ruled Before Skyscrapers
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#2Are boundary markers really completely deprecated in much of the world? Here in Finland, private properties still commonly feature them, and it's illegal to move them.
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#3This is a very strangely written article, like something churned out by an SEO mill.
It half-way alludes to - and then shies away from - a bunch of potentially interesting things, then wildly changes direction in the last paragraph and ends abruptly. I wonder if the person who wrote it has ever even visited London? Most of it seems to be a near-direct lift form the Wikipedia article on the City of London.
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#4> The American Conservative
> We want a federal government that restrains itself from intrusive forays into the lives and businesses
> Unfortunately, these well-intentioned dragons at the thresholds of the City of London have been unable to guard against the onslaught of hubristic architects and developers
Wow, that's hard to conciliate! A limited-government conservative who is also a NIMBY and in favor a strong-government urban planning.
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#5> The American Conservative > We want a federal government that restrains itself from intrusive forays into the lives and businesses > Unfortunately, these well-intentioned dragons at the thresholds of the City of London have been unable to guard against the onslaught of hubristic architects and developers Wow, that's hard to conciliate! A limited-government conservative who is also a NIMBY and in favor a strong-gove…
There is no contradiction in wanting a small federal government and being in favor of local governments making rules to better the daily life of citizens, or accomplish any other goal. It’s well in line with the concept of subsidiarity, a hallmark of most strands of conservatism.
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#6> The American Conservative > We want a federal government that restrains itself from intrusive forays into the lives and businesses > Unfortunately, these well-intentioned dragons at the thresholds of the City of London have been unable to guard against the onslaught of hubristic architects and developers Wow, that's hard to conciliate! A limited-government conservative who is also a NIMBY and in favor a strong-gove…
There is no contradiction in wanting a small federal government and being in favor of local governments making rules to better the daily life of citizens, or accomplish any other goal. It’s well in line with the concept of subsidiarity, a hallmark of most strands of conservatism.
Not when you want this:
> authentically free markets
Heavily regulating land markets is as far away from a free market as you can be.
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#7> The American Conservative > We want a federal government that restrains itself from intrusive forays into the lives and businesses > Unfortunately, these well-intentioned dragons at the thresholds of the City of London have been unable to guard against the onslaught of hubristic architects and developers Wow, that's hard to conciliate! A limited-government conservative who is also a NIMBY and in favor a strong-gove…
American conservatives (as opposed to libertarians) aren't particularly for limited government, they are for government doing conservative things, and for limited US federal government, because the US federal government has been, from time-to-time, known to step in with great force to stop subordinate governments from doing things American conservatives quite liked.
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#8URL for the original article source: https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2018/12/27/dragon-boundary-...
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#9Are boundary markers really completely deprecated in much of the world? Here in Finland, private properties still commonly feature them, and it's illegal to move them.
Not sure. I know one corner of my parent's land in Montana has a physical marker. Maybe because it's a joint boundary between state, federal and private land. It is also really hard to find, as it's in the bottom of a ravine in heavy brush and it's a ground level bronze (I think) spike like an oversized nail hammered into the ground. You really have to know where the boundary is within a few feet already to have even the slightest hope of finding it.
I found it once as a teen, but 2 decades later, I'd be hard pressed to find it.
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#10This is a very strangely written article, like something churned out by an SEO mill. It half-way alludes to - and then shies away from - a bunch of potentially interesting things, then wildly changes direction in the last paragraph and ends abruptly. I wonder if the person who wrote it has ever even visited London? Most of it seems to be a near-direct lift form the Wikipedia article on the City of London.
I also thought so. No pictures and it was not clear from the article if thus sculptures were still standing.
A quick search turned up an article with pictures: https://www.aperturetours.com/blog/dragons