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Story time: A friend of mine (retired) runs a little restaurant in the deep western part of Tokyo. It was barely making it before the virus but business dried up
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The famous 519 East 11th Street, N.Y., is looking pretty excellent these days. In 1973 the building was abandoned, after being gutted by fires lit by its slum-landlord. In 1974
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“Ask anyone: what is the deadliest white powder sold on the street, first synthesized in the nineteenth century? Heroin? Cocaine? they may suggest. Crystal meth? The answer? Portland cement.”— The
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Modern building materials are great if applied perfectly. And what are the chances of every builder on every part of a house applying every material perfectly every time? Zero. All
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In this historically cold winter, let's take a look at the two traditional ways of heating the Japanese home: the rural irori (囲炉裏) and the urban hibachi (火鉢). Japanese homes
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Back in the old days all rice grew with enough straw to make its own containers for storage and shipping. When you finished one of these you could simply feed
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The most trad fruit tree of them all: the quince. Here's a gathering of Chinese quinces (Pseudocydonia sinensis). Quinces are inedible raw, only useful cooked. In the early days of
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Tokyo is by no means a beautiful city, but is has many examples of outstanding urban practices. One of the most charming are the many stairs found all across the
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Give me dumb cities and dumb homes: one reason for growing housing inequalities is modern wasteful, over-engineered, over equipped, fragile "smart" homes. Dumb homes are so much cheaper to build
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Lamu Town in modern Kenya is the oldest and best preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa and an example of African #GoodUrbanism. Founded in 1370. Very few motor vehicles are
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"Those using wooden cutting boards were less than half as likely as average to contract salmonellosis, those using plastic or glass cutting boards were about twice as likely as average
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Timber framing is by far the most ecologically sustainable and economical way of building homes in the widest range of climates, but even inside the category of timber framing (fachwerkhaus,
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