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San Martino al Cimino in Italy is an unusual 17th c. meticulously planned Baroque town. It was built around an early 13th c. Cistercian abbey, in 1645 on the orders
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Before elevators the classic 5+2 Parisian apartment house looked much the same as good apartment buildings have done since the days of ancient Rome. Far more economically diverse than today:
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The fastest growing tree in the world is the Empress Tree, Paulowina tomentosa, native to China and Japan, grows up to 6m in its first year and produces 3-4 times
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Let's talk materials: Co, Zn. Copper roofing is the original green roof. Copper, like gold, is a survivor: about 80% of all the copper ever mined is still in use
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Imagine if this was the entrance or gateway to your home, your town or neighborhood? #GoodUrbanism means dignified entrances and portals. #Lübeck #GoodUrbanism means building squares and streets for the
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I spent the weekend in the country looking at traditional Japanese pillar-to-stone foundations, the no concrete no metal lowtech (sustainable) method of building earthquake resistant homes. I looked primarily at
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Possibly the first city in the New World, the Caral civilization, ca. 3100 B.C. The reason we even know of it is because of their clever way of building in
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Before the International Style (modernism) in architecture, our ancestors knew how to adapt the room heights according to the climate, achieving maximum effect (comfort) for the least effort (energy). Today
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It is my opinion that we moderns have simply lost the ability to build a decent plaza. Luckily there are still a few really good ones left from a time
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Sustainable forestry: lumber without cutting down trees. Daisugi is a Japanese forestry technique where specially planted cedar trees are pruned heavily (think of it as giant bonsai) to produce "shoots"
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The old walled city of Shibam, Yemen, has been inhabited at least since the 3rd c., an example of perfect desert urbanism. A pop. of 7000 living on 0.03 square
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“Bigness is pervasive in America as nowhere else in the world.”— Human Scale Revisited, by Kirkpatrick Sale If true, that the most productive factories are those “with fewer than forty-five
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