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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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  2. 3 hours ago

    I usually don't quote tweet replies (because it seems a bit rude really) but I see this "defense" of a clearly manipulative EU law pop up all the time and I don't want to answer it over and over again.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    It will. Say a reconstruction will cost €10 million with EU funds and a proper historical reconstruction will cost €100 million without EU funds, which municipal authority will have the financial and political power to be able to resist not chosing the EU approved project?

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  4. 5 hours ago

    ... or just wide enough for a garden.

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Let me try this: just wide enough for a tram ...

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  7. 5 hours ago

    Modern art is just a giant project to generate waste. Paris, March, 2019.

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  8. 6 hours ago

    The Kasr (fortified village) typically has about 1000 houses, all built with 3-5 rooms around a central courtyard, in stone of 50cm thickness, about 1000 years ago. The courtyard means no AC is needed, unlike modern homes or eco "passivhaus". At night occupants sleep on the roof.

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  9. 6 hours ago

    The designer of the inside of this carbuncle (the outside he is not responsible for), John Pawson, undoubtedly reserves the nicer things for himself and his family. Here is his home in the Cotswolds, complete with a medieval fish pond.

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  10. 6 hours ago

    Souk Lalla Achou in the middle, is about 0.2 acres, used as a market square on most days. Not many parking spaces in this city.

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  11. 6 hours ago

    The holy city of Beni Isguen in Algeria, funded in A.D. 1051 and originally walled twice over (only one set remains today). 0.14 km², with about 7500 inhabitants (about 54k per km² without any buildings taller than two floors).

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  12. 7 hours ago

    When your local UK politicians say they are committed to fighting global warming, just hold up a photo of the Design Museum. If they don't care, why should we?

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  13. 7 hours ago

    On the left, the environmental disaster that is The Design Museum in Kensington, £83 million in 2016, expected life span: 30 years, with a bit of luck and millions in funding. On the right, Cafe Wien in Wernigerode, built by hand in A.D. 1583, ca. £10, sustainable indefinitely.

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  14. 7 hours ago

    Most people use their backyards far less than they think they do.

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  16. 9 hours ago

    Do quarantines work? How 13th century Europeans fought leprosy and won.

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  17. 9 hours ago

    Do quarantines work? "The Cuban quarantine ran from 1986 to 1997, during the early days of a global AIDS epidemic." Today, "Cuba has the lowest prevalence of HIV in the Americas." It was the tourism industry that put an end to the quarantine by the way.

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  18. 9 hours ago

    New proof that flowers are better pollinated in cities than in rural areas. If we agree to limit urban sprawl, cities could function as a source of pollinators to help restore reduced rural populations. Score one for human scaled cities.

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  20. 9 hours ago

    Do quarantines work? The story of Western Samoa, Eastern Samoa, and the Spanish Flu of 1918. By

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  21. 9 hours ago

    The more complex the system is, the more complex the unintended side effects. "When phenols, compounds that are commonly found in drinking water, mix with chlorine, hundreds of unknown, potentially toxic byproducts are formed."

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