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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  2. 1 hour ago

    You can write an entire textbook on urbanism from this image alone. Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (since 1861).

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  3. 2 hours ago

    What to do if you are 14th century town council with the need to build a bridge but no one wants to pay for it? Build shops and houses on top of it. Pay for the bridge with the rent fees. Ponto Vecchio, Florence, 1345.

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    Feb 22

    Tokyo is by no means a beautiful city, but is has many examples of outstanding urban practices. One of the most charming are the many stairs found all across the city, in vast numbers and diverse shapes.

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    Oct 16

    "The idea that reason and rationality are enough, or are the ultimate (as in best) form of thought, are obviously false ideas. They are useful and necessary, but alone they are insufficient."

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  6. 4 hours ago

    Very near my home there is a shopping street (a shotengai 商店街), where the florist keeps a stand selling plants, unattended at night. I have never seen nor heard about any theft or vandalism regarding it. It looks a bit like this (for illustration purposes only).

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  7. 4 hours ago

    More art came out of (walled) renaissance Florence in 70 years than the entire Western World in the last 70 years. Meanwhile our elites are fighting for the chance to turn the entire Earth into a giant suburb, for their profit margin.

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  8. 4 hours ago

    "Manners and morals are indicated best by what we do when no one else is watching. And public virtue, the social capital of a civilisation, is demonstrated by the individual behaviour of those stopping by an unattended farm stand." — Joseph Bottum

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  9. 4 hours ago

    Just started and so far the book is excellent. Here David Frye on the Roman poet Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso 43 B.C.—17/18 AD) and his relationship with walls, spear in hand.

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  10. 5 hours ago

    Death by modern architecture. Every time the building industry comes up with a "grand new way of building" the ensuing problems are far bigger than any of the perceived benefits. Building just gets more and more expensive, more and more complicated.

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  11. 5 hours ago

    “The creators of the first civilizations descended from generations of wall builders.” — David Frye, Walls

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  12. 7 hours ago

    A shared faith is necessary to build lasting communities. The story of Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Every paragraph of this text is a learning point in good urbanism.

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    7 Sep 2017

    “Nothing makes men so impudent and conceited as ignorance of the past and a scorn for old books.” — Joseph Joubert

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    18 May 2017

    Reading old books is the closest you will ever get to time travel.

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    Feb 10

    Furnish your mind, read old books.

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  16. Oct 20

    It might seem like a minor subject to thread about but these charities or trusts or charters are surviving examples of how much of our heritage in Europe was built and maintained, from schools and hospitals to roads and even regiments. Examples of extremely low time preference.

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  17. Oct 20

    Turner famously painted the old medieval bridge, in the same style he painted his ships.

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  18. Oct 20

    The Rochester Bridge Trusts still own the lands amd estates granted it by the King and today maintain not only the bridge on those rents, but also funds restorations of agricultural history objects. “12 trustees, Six are nominated by the local Councils and six are local people.”

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  19. Oct 20

    One of the oldest surviving secular charities in the world is the ”Wardens and Commonalty of Rochester Bridge”, funded in 1399 by King Richard II to care for the bridge over the Medway. First bridged Romans, upkeep became too much of a burden for the local landowners in 1391.

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  20. Oct 20

    The aqueduct constructed by Saladin to supply his citadel in Cairo during the 12th c. will be partially restored after centuries of neglect. I sincerely hope they restore the hole thing to a functioning and useful low-tech water management system.

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    1 Oct 2017

    “When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it and within it.” — C. Alexander

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