The Politics of Final Fantasy 7's Architecture

in an unlit room, the attempt to focus upon the machined eyes of my lover Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Credits Song: “Stormy Skies” by Henry Walsh, Nora Miller, & Julian Denton: https://theparasitoidwasps.bandcamp.com/releases Additional Consultation on Port Arthur by Andrew Geller Sources: The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh’s Legendary Underground City (Joseph Henderson, 1999) Real Mary King's Close in Edinburgh, Scotland (Viator Travel): https://youtu.be/xj9iD3IU9Nk Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows: https://www.texasobserver.org/benzene-oil-refineries-texas-coast/ Bad Air Days: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/bad-air-days-2/ 10 US oil refineries exceeding limits for cancer-causing benzene, report finds: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/06/us-oil-refineries-exceeding-limits-for-cancer-causing-benzene-report-finds Texas Resident Wins Award for Challenging Oil Refineries: https://youtu.be/z5Iy-ha8BbE Visual Media Used: Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Final Fantasy 7, Mirror’s Edge, Parasite (2019), Blade Runner (1983), High and Low (1963), Google Earth Studio Music Used (chronologically): Opening (FF7), Scorpion Sentinel, Opening, Bombing Mission (FF7R), Still Alive (Mirror’s Edge), Star of Seventh Heaven (FF7R), Concrete for Miles (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Memory (Ruiner), A Story You Won’t Believe, Assassins of Kings 01 (The Witcher 3), Tifa’s Theme- Seventh Heaven (FF7R), DEAD (Max Payne 3), Stormy Skies Thumbnail by: https://twitter.com/HotCyder Alternate Thumbnail by: https://www.youtube.com/c/Stevem/featured Description Credit: Cody Todd, “Query of a Die”