The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his teacher Gerard O’Neill

The description of O’Neill’s presentation, though, could apply note for note to a talk that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos gave on May 9 in D.C., unveiling his spaceflight company Blue Origin’s design for a lunar lander and a longer-term vision of space habitats. Jeff Bezos was one of Gerard O’Neill’s students at Princeton in the mid-1980s. Before he was designing luxury hotels, Safdie had demonstrated, in his Habitat 67 project in Montreal, that megastructures could produce a human-scaled environment that ordinary people would flock to, and the Geisel is a monument to the memorability of public architecture and public institutions.

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