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Our old towns and cities have been bombed, vilified, slandered and made defenseless, but in terms of outright destruction, you can't have it worse than agricultural buildings. Let'...
It is time for a thread on traditional urbanism, or town planning 13th century style. I will dispel some myths of modern dis-urbanism. https://t.co/wUbkEuGy9a
The practical skills in thatching can be difficult to acquire by videos or books alone, especially how to find materials and the binding. In Finland there is a traditional thatchin...
Wild animals in Japan cause agricultural losses of billions of yen every year and every year things get worse. But since 2005 Japanese farmers have begun to fight back with their o...
The machine, modernity, hates the sacrifice because it can't be commodified. The sacrifice is the enemy of the modern world. It is the home toiled and cared for versus "Housing". I...
βTo the visually trained or sensitive person today, the assault of urban anarchy on the senses is remorseless and unremitting.β β Frederick Gutheim, 1963 https://t.co/o6mEbbGrVe
19th century herring fisheries almost wiped out the entire forest on a remote island off the coast of Hokkaido, TeuritΕ. When the forests disappeared the topsoil and water went too...
The traditional method of fertilizing agricultural land (karishiki, organic compost or raw materials) in Japan since prehistoric times mostly came to a stop in the 1970s, except fo...
All buildings and all streets are compromises. There is no design that can cover all needs or aspects of daily life, but there is a lot we can do to fine-tune a place or a building...
In 1914, a 29 yo engineer with the Ministry of Agriculture put an end to centuries of village feuding over water rights in rural Japan by inventing the Circular Water Diverter, "En...
Yeonggwang County has the highest fertility rate in all of South Korea, with a four year average TFR of 2.17 (2.6 times the national average), with a wide ranging support system fo...
The oldest house in Missouri is the French Colonial style 1792 Louis Bolduc House in Sainte Genevieve. Essentially a timber frame with mud-straw-hair infill, Norman roof trusses an...