We Can Build Compact Walkable Towns Instead of Suburban Wastelands
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Vi er alle avhengige av økonomisk vekst, det er vårt narkosium, og verden er høy på en virkelighetsfjern rus. Hva skjer den dagen realitetene treffer oss som en knyttneve?
In this year, 2011, we are enjoying a lifestyle beyond the most optimistic dreams of past generations. We are benefitting from the whirlwind of achievements in science and technology during the last hundred years. There has never been a century like the one just passed, and there will never be another like it. Lifestyles will be very different when oil and gas are depleted. - Roy Anderson
We’re not really facing a shortage of energy; we’re facing a longage of expectations. And the sooner that we as individuals or a nation recognize that the future is going to see much lower consumption than today and prepare for that, psychological resilience is going to be really important, because if no one is psychologically prepared, people are going to freak out when some of these freedoms start to go away. - Nate Hagens
By Christopher Alexander . Original text at First Things . Rose trellis of Generalife. It has taken me almost fifty years to understand fully that there is a necessary connection between God and architecture, and that this connection is, in part, empirically verifiable. Further, I have come to the view that the sacredness of the physical world—and the potential of the physical world for sacredness—provides a powerful and surprising path towards understanding the existence of God, whatever God may be, as a necessary part of the reality of the universe. If we approach certain empirical questions about architecture in a proper manner, we will come to see God. It comes from realizing that the task of making and remaking the Earth—that which we sometimes call architecture—is at the core of any commonsense understanding of the divine. Only in the last twenty years has my understanding of this connection taken a definite form, and it continues to develop every day....
Jeg hadde helt glemt hvor flott det er i Øvre Årdal, hvor Utladalen må være noe av det råeste norsk natur har å by på. Nordmenn har imidlertid i beste fall blitt en parodi, med nidstanga på Sløvåg kai i Gulen, som det perfekte symbol på nidlandet Norge. Uansett, blir vi jaget fra kværnenga vår, hvilket ville vært en lettelse, får vi ta en mellomstasjon i Øvre Årdal før det sørvestre Frankrike, hvor dette vil være et ideelt utgangspunkt for å avslutte Norge for godt. Øyvind Holmstad - Vestland River meeting of the Utladalen Valley, in Western Norway. Stock-bilde | Adobe Stock Tror dere ikke det, jeg hadde glemt helt av Øvre Årdal, hvor vi stoppet to ganger på ferieturen vår i 2024, begge gangene for å spise pizza. Og pizzaen var kjempegod, hvor vi ble mette alle sammen. I tillegg var vi innom biblioteket, som er det flotteste biblioteket vi har vært på noen gang, med enormt mye bøker, magasiner og en haug med splitter nye filmer på DVD. Slik at vi lånte med oss en stor bunke DVDer hjem,...
From the PLANETIZEN May 24, 2010 Nikos 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 building outside Rome is a social housing block that exemplifies the established Corbusian tradition of treating human beings as battery chickens. It was built during 1972-1982 as a single one-kilometer-long building. It is now estimated to house 6,000 people. Apologists who are nostalgic of Soviet-era social experiments continue to defend its paradigmatic modernist design on the grounds that every resident is EQUALLY oppressed in this inhuman environment, an ideal consistent with totalitarian notions of social equality. Apartments in the Corviale Building. (Photo courtesy of Flickr user Matteo Dudek) I am involved in an architectural revolution that is occurring today in Italy, and which may hopefully spread to the rest of Europe and the World . We are proposing tearing...
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