Wrath Of Gnon

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    6 Jul 2017

    It is time for a thread on traditional urbanism, or town planning 13th century style. I will dispel some myths of modern dis-urbanism.

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    29 Sep 2018

    G.K. Chesterton in Heretics (1905) on the adventure that is the family. Three of my favorite pages in one of my favorite books.

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  3. 10 hours ago

    Chesterton wrote a lot more on the subject of the ordinary (and so did Tolkien, Lewis etc.), but Niall makes his point well enough by himself:

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  4. 15 hours ago

    Sometimes when you find just the sweet spot in what you grow and what you raise and what you build, it ends up looking a little bit similar. Vernacular buildings for vernacular breeds, sprung from the same earth.

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  5. 16 hours ago

    Pollarding was so important for humans (from the dawn of agriculture) that the best pollarding species would be transported and planted when new farms or homesteads were established which is why can often find these trees still, everywhere people once farmed.

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  6. 17 hours ago

    Here is a superbly informative video from the UK, by a pollarding enthusiast group.

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  7. 17 hours ago

    Virtually no-one pollards trees for animal feed anymore, even though leaves are almost always nutritionally superior for any kind of livestock (especially ash trees). I could not even find photos of it, but here is video of a clever Swedish man's harvest.

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  8. 17 hours ago

    Pollarding trees is a great way to help the local ecology: pollarded trees live far far longer than normal trees, with gnarlier bark that can attract exponentially more species of moss and lichen, they are often hollow and becomes great homes for a multitude of birds and mammals.

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  9. 18 hours ago

    Even if you do have a palace or grand mansion, using pollarded trees (here linden trees near Stockholm) can give your home a truly rustic look, an agrarian aesthetic that is instantly recognizable to anyone anywhere. I call it the "shabby chic" of landscape designers.

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  10. 18 hours ago

    A beautifully maintained line of pollarded willows becomes immensely beautiful and the perfect way to line a road leading towards a farm or isolated countryhouse (rather than more stately trees befitting a grand manor or palace). These could do with some pollarding come summer.

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  11. 18 hours ago

    Once you start pollarding (or coppicing for that matter) you'd better keep it up for a few centuries. Otherwise they can grow pretty wild. Here's a Swedish goat willow that hasn't been coppiced or pollarded for a few centuries.

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  12. 18 hours ago

    Pollard is also a common surname but it originated as a nickname for people with large heads (so not an agrarian name). It is different from coppicing which is done closer to the root and in order to harvest wood rather than leaves.

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  13. 18 hours ago

    ...and here's what pollarded willows looks like in real life. Pollarding was done every year or once every three years to use the leafy branches as winter fodder (dried in special pollarding barns). A superbly ecological way of keeping your livestock.

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  14. 18 hours ago

    There are some really knowledgeable children's books illustrators. Here's one with correctly depicted pollarded willows in the winter by Patrick Benson...

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  15. 19 hours ago

    “The cataclysmic use of money for suburban sprawl, and the concomitant starvation...of cities that planning...was what our wise men wanted for us; they put in a lot of effort, one way and another, to get it. We got it.” — The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

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  16. 21 hours ago

    ”The replacement of somewhere by nowhere.” So many quotables in this short piece by Sir Roger Scruton.

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  17. 22 hours ago

    Great story of one of those rare NPOs that manages to do important work preserving the local on a national scale: heritage apples.

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  18. 22 hours ago

    Study testing the use of VR and photos in anatomy classrooms, non-surprising finds: "there are claims about virtual reality being better, but then you find it is not just worse, but significantly worse." I guess this is true for all education.

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  19. 22 hours ago

    Thanks to the new field of Palaeoproteomics we can now tell the age and sex of animals fossils more than a million years old.

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    Nov 21

    Dzisiaj w centrum Krakowa rano na jednym z przystanków tramwajowych para Japończyków ok. 50-latków. Podjeżdża poniższy tramwaj, a ci co? Wsiadają? Ależ skąd. On wyciąga aparat i robi zdjęcia tramwajowi😂 Prezydent Majchrowski może być dumny. W Japonii będą mieli polew z Krakowa🤦‍♂️

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  21. 23 hours ago

    means creating good spaces (comfy rooms) not efficient streets (corridors).

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