Wrath Of Gnon

@wrathofgnon

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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. 5 hours ago

    Changing car commute to bicycle commute is ridiculously cost effective: “Every year, 720,000 fewer car journeys, as well as 55,000 fewer hours spent in traffic, 40,000 fewer sick days, cycling infrastructure is expected to deliver a $860 million surplus.”

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Nairobi has a growing garbage problem but some enterprising people are fighting back: TakaTaka Solutions serve 120,000 households in the city, recycling or composting 95% of their garbage. 

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Medellín in Colombia is successfully fighting urban heat islands: “Between 2016 and 2019, 36 green corridors were planted along major roads and waterways. Covering over 36 hectares, these areas have already seen temperature reductions of up to 4°C.”

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  5. 6 hours ago

    "Droughts behave similarly to wildfires: while fires propagate downwind by igniting more and more 'fuel' in their surroundings, droughts do so by reducing their own rainfall supply through the drying of the land surface."

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  6. 7 hours ago

    “My ancestors have been peasants since the dawn of time, and it is the nobility of my lineage and my race that we have never bought or sold anything.” — Jean Cau

    "The triumph of the morality of the slave without master." — Jean Cau
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  7. 7 hours ago

    “He thought he was shaking hands with Gavroche, it was Tartuffe.“ — Bernard de Fallois

    "May 68, that strange revolution which sees the sons of the bourgeois throw cobblestones at the sons of Proletarians." — Jean Cau
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    24 May 2017

    “You are the one you were in the days of your childhood when you lived without precaution and with innocence your life.” — Jean Cau

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  9. 10 hours ago

    “Human-related extinctions of the largest herbivores and carnivores are disrupting what appears to be a fundamental feature of past and present ecosystems, with potentially unpredictable consequences.”

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  10. 11 hours ago

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) on statistics in full sermon mode in 1839. Worthy reading whatever is your opinion of chartism as a cause, but the first paragraph is the key: it still holds true 189 years later.

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    5 Mar 2020

    Kevin Carson quoting the nestor of size, scale and efficiency studies, Barry Stein. There is no inherent efficiency in scale, all you get is power to shift costs to operation to others. For true efficiency there is an optimal size in everything, and it is remarkably human scaled.

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    28 Mar 2018

    “Wherever something is wrong, something is too big.” — Leopold Kohr

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    Apr 23

    Lodge Alley, Charleston, South Carolina 🇺🇸

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  14. Apr 24

    Two floors and an attic, stone and timber construction, not a complicated build, occupies 100m² (roughly 1080ft²). It would liven up any neighborhood it was built in today. Built in 1522, exploded in 1672, rebuilt in 1681, external stair added 2001. Today a local radio station.

    Bootmakers' Tower in Romania 🇷🇴 The building was built in 1681 and it has a beautiful baroque architectural influence.
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    Apr 23

    Bought on recommendation from feed and don’t regret

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  16. Apr 23

    Tachinamisou, Scutellaria indica, growing here in both its purple and white varieties together. Tasteless and tiny, its use is only as a herbal medicine for detoxification, against colds and chills, aches and fever. Applied externally it helps clear bruising and cuts.

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    12 Apr 2020

    The city of Ghadames on the edge of the Saharan desert in Libya is maybe one of the finest examples of desert urbanism still in existence. Inhabited since the 4th millennia B.C., many of its 1300 houses have been continually inhabited, improved, expanded, for over 3000 years.

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    25 Mar 2020

    In 1995 after the Hanshin Earthquake in Japan a local construction company wanted to find which of its buildings had survived the quake (in total 400 000 bldgs were destroyed, over 6000 killed). They found one of their oldest buildings, a 1928 wooden villa was without a scratch.

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    4 Jul 2018

    On hot and humid windless days the Japanese had one final trick: uchimizu (打ち水), the scattering of water on the pavement in front of the house (we moderns have a technical term for it: evaporative cooling).

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    18 May 2020

    The Aghazadeh mansion in Abarkooh, Iran. Built in 100% sustainable natural materials, mid 19th c. Three buildings around a central courtyard with a stone pool, garden, and a magnificent 18m two storied baudgeer, or wind catcher that naturally ventilates and cools the interior.

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    21 Jul 2019

    The Romans knew about geothermal power and in the renaissance architects utilized the same sources to build great villas with natural air conditioning. Here is the Villa Trento Carli in Italy, built in 1645, never warmer than 17 to 23 degrees c even in the hottest of summers.

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