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The End of Tall Buildings
The End of Tall Buildings is a must read essay by Salingaros and Kunstler!
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Tear Down the Corviale! New Urbanism Comes to Rome
From the PLANETIZEN:May 24, 2010Nikos Salingaros presents the case for demolishing a modernist eyesore in Rome and replacing it with a high-density, mixed-use New Urbanist neighborhood.The Corviale...
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Mer vås om høyhus
Denne kommentaren ble i etterkant slettet av redaksjonen hos osloby, ganske utrolig!Min kommentar til artikkel om høyhus i Oslo. Les artikkelen her.Min kommentar:"Når Oslos befolkning vokser og byen...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Bad Books and Bad Buildings
"Architects are not entitled to the same indulgence as the writers of bad books because bad books are easily avoided, consigned undisturbed to the remoter shelves of libraries, whereas bad buildings...
View ArticleDifferent Time Perspectives
Does that make cyclical cosmologies more accurate than the others we’ve just considered? Is the circle the true shape of time? It’s hard to see any way in which those questions could mean anything....
View ArticleOur Chances of Adapting to the End of Progress are Not Good
One of the others is of particular importance to our broader theme. If you happen to live in a society that has stumbled across an energy source of unparalleled abundance and concentration, a source...
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Computers are the Final Hurrah of the Age of Cheap Abundant Energy
Villager, computers don't build themselves, they don't power themselves, they don't mine the raw materials to make their own spare parts for themselves, and so on. They're simply the final hurrah of...
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The Grotto Pavillion
Grotto pavillion in Catherine park of Tsarskoe Selo, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Photo: Florstein
View ArticleEt rent hjerte
Kommentar hos Kulturverk:Jeg ser at Bhagavad Gita ofte refereres til som Gita. Da jeg var i St. Petersburg for vel ti år siden ble jeg kjent med ei hyggelig sigøynerjente som het Gita. Har ikke kjent...
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Village Towns istedenfor drabantbyer
Min respons til Anders Tronstad sin glimrende kommentar, som kan leses her.Flott Anders! Har du hørt om Village Towns - bevegelsen? De har mye informasjon på hjemmesida si her:...
View ArticleBack to the Village (A Lesson from Spain)
Read the article:- Solar Dreams, Spanish Realities"In my opinion we can use solar PV energy, as far as it is available and we can afford it for specific applications," says Prieto. But he now views...
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The Moravian Town of Telc, in the Czech Republic
Arcaded, covered sidewalks. One of Piscataquis Village Project's Six Key Design elements. These are in snow country- Telc, the Czech Republic.
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En historie fra Talmud
Jeg er overbevist om at Vårherre driver denne verden og at det finnes en Gud. Han venter at vi skal delta i hans fortsatte skaperverk og gjøre verden stadig bedre, sier Kahan, og illustrerer poenget...
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Halvguden Bjarke Ingels
Jo mer umulig en situasjon fremstår, jo mer kraft og makt får arkitekten som kan løse det tilsynelatende uløselige. - Bjarke Ingels, geometrisk fundamentalistPyramidene brukte å være hus for de døde. I...
View ArticleA Deeper Environmentalism
In 2007, a group of prominent environmentalists gathered in Aspen, Colorado, to discuss how to redesign the environmental movement to combat the linked environmental, social, and spiritual crises...
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