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The 1937 Gardendale Project was a trial of rammed earth as a technique used in mass produced affordable homes in Alabama, USA. In terms of cost they were comparable to
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Our old towns and cities have been bombed, vilified, slandered and made defenseless, but in terms of outright destruction, you can't have it worse than agricultural buildings. Let's have a
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Beekeeping or apiculture has left a small but charming legacy in European agricultural architecture, from the early 12th century to roughly the mid 19th, when the modern Langstroth hives made
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A story of inappropriate technology: in the 1970s it was decided to modernize the rice farming of Sri Lanka, whose system that had not changed much for 3000 years. The
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“Wherever something is wrong, something is too big.” — Leopold Kohr Leopold Kohr goes on to give a beautiful example, that has been noted by many before him, of how
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In a 2009 study Luis Balula asked about 800 residents of Évora, Portugal, “How appropriate is this image for the future of Évora?”, or in other words, what do people
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“So let us see how we can ensure that the child will grow up taking it as normal that other people will simply be the operators of impersonal functions. The
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The Greek city of Priene as it might have looked in 350 B.C. Planned so that all homes face south to make maximum use of solar heating in winter. Courtyards
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Re-reading Leopold Kohr's famous ”The Breakdown of Nation”, on the difference between quality and quantity in terms of travel, the medieval vs. the modern. This is thinking outside the box.
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A famous "flashmob" video that went viral in 2012, from the city of Sabadell in Catalonia, Spain. An orchestra playing Beethoven. Have a look before you read the rest of
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Are you retired or underemployed, student? Organize "neighborhood walks", get locals out of their houses into the fresh air and sunshine while guiding them on a subject you know or
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November is the month to see the splendid berries of the nanten (Nandina domesticus), or Heavenly Bamboo, widely grown in Asia as an ornamental in gardens, but highly invasive in
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