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Haussmann’s renovation of Paris was a city-led master plan situation where Napoleon III gave urban planner Haussmann full authority over building new streets and sanitation AND a form-based code: —small-lot, mixed-use, mult-family buildings rising 4-6 stories tall —built wall to wall so they form solid street walls and coherent blocks The city provided good infrastructure AND GOOD CODE; the private builders built it out. It also helped that paris sits on top of the limestone quarries that supply the (naturally fire-resistant) stone used to build the single-stair buildings.

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What about fully national events? I challenge the assumption that such a thing exists. Many seemingly national events like the Taiping Rebellion, American Civil War, or Meiji Restoration involve much more international interference than they are given credit for. To give just a few examples, the Emancipation Proclamation that radically altered the purpose of the Civil War was heavily influenced by the need to convince foreign powers that the war was about slavery, thereby making a pro-Confederate intervention politically unfeasible. The North's Anaconda plan almost wrecked Britain's economy until it started sourcing cotton from elsewhere. At the same time Britain was losing its American inputs, their key export market of China, was suffering from the Taiping Civil War. (And Britain had to put down the Sepoy Mutiny on top of all of that.) The Second Opium War was concurrent with the Taiping Rebellion. Both Qing and Taiping governments worked hard to win foreign support, weapons, advisors, and recruited large numbers of foreign mercenaries. And of course, the whole point of the Meiji restoration was to make Japan more like the European countries to win their recognition and respect, while simultaneously preventing reactionaries from attacking the foreigners and suffering the very retaliations that so seriously damaged the Qing Empire.

I rather enjoy National Awakening, but feel it highlights the need to reconsider how content is grouped for production in future immersion packs. Victoria III's content is currently made as though history is a series of parallel national stories. Though these individual narratives may collide, each nation is fundamentally telling its own narrative. In National Awakening's case, the national stories expanded on are those of Austria, the Balkan countries, and the Ottoman Empire. I think this is inefficient for a few reasons. 1. It forcibly cuts up the many multinational events of the 19th century, like the Revolutions of 1848, into what will inevitably be a series of proprietary events to each country with minimal interaction between them. 2. This creates tech-debt (narrative debt?) Each time a new nation's story gets developed and runs into the same shared international event, the previously produced content for other nations will either have to be reworked to interact, or the new content will not be able to fully exploit the potential of each historical event. 3. Because only a small number of national narratives can be developed at a time, any player not interested in those nations will have little interest in each expansion. Future DLC should be themed by multi-national event(s), such as the Opium Wars or the Revolutions of 1848, with content for every involved nation. Because more nations can be featured, each pack will appeal to more players. As more packs are introduced, the overall narrative experience of Victoria III will improve, as each in-game decade will lead players of all countries from one international event to the next. Players will want to experience them from different national perspectives with a variety of strategies. That's massive replayability. TL;DR: don't make content expansions by country, but by event, with new content for all involved countries. This will lead to better content, produce less tech/narrative-debt, and ensure each immersion pack appeals to more players.

"No Taxation Without Representation"? The oft-repeated slogan is taken out of its context today, and is a major subject of our upcoming video covering the American Revolution and Revolutionary War. The 13 Colonies had been paying taxes to Great Britain since the 1733 Molasses Act. Because of it, not even the most radical Patriot could claim Parliament did not have the right to tax him. Beginning with the debate surrounding the 1765 Stamp Act, the colonists' real dispute was (supposedly) what specific kinds of taxes Parliament could raise. Unlike the Molasses Act's taxes on imported sugar, the Stamp Act taxed paper made and sold within the 13 colonies. The Colonists called the former an 'external tax' and the latter an 'internal tax.' They argued that Parliament could levy whatever external taxes it wanted, but only a body in which the colonists were directly represented (the Colonial Assemblies) could levy internal taxes. This internal/external distinction was made up by the colonists, with little precedent. When a colonial delegation tried explaining their position to Parliament before it voted on the Stamp Act, Parliament found it outrageous and saw it as another reason to pass the act. How did the colonists respond? Moderates peacefully boycotted British goods, but the radical Patriots set mobs loose against British officials, intimidating and sometimes publicly torturing them. (A la tarring and feathering.) In the end, the colonists got what they wanted. The Stamp Act would be repealed in 1766, and the British would never pass an 'internal tax' in America again until after the Revolutionary War broke out. But that's the thing - Parliament gave the colonists exactly what they wanted regarding taxes, and the colonists rebelled anyway. The American Revolution was about many things, but the only role taxes played was as a pretext, not a cause. Thanks to @hirotonfa for the cool art.

A 🧵 of excerpts about Europe in the lead-up to the Revolutions of 1848 from Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark He also wrote Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947. Both works are highly recommended

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