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Tverberg for once gives a very encouraging comment about a glorious future of the commons! What it really would be better to do is go back to is the situation before land ownership and goods ownership (other than what you could carry). Then everything would be owned in common. The only restraints would be restraints handed down through the culture that explained how you and others should act. We would probably be back to small “gift economies,” or perhaps a step or two up from that–land ownership schemes that didn’t encourage each person to overuse their own plot, so as to maximize production each year. Also, the few animals owned could be rotated among the plots, to help with fertilization. When I made the comment near the end that there is really no wealth that is permanent for the long run, I was referring to the fact that our ownership of land and houses depends on a governments continuing to recognize this ownership. There is also the issue of being able to continue to pay taxe...

Original comment and article here . Øyvind Holmstad Says: February 10, 2015 at 2:34 am Vera, I want to inform you that it will soon be published a book in Canada about the Norwegian eco philosopher Sigmund Kvaloey Setreng! His father was my father’s teacher. He is quite much philosophizing about generated contra fabricated complexity, and is fully aligned with the philosophy of Alexander. But he calls fabricated complexity “complication”, meaning it’s not real complexity, because it repeats itself. Generated complexity, or adapted, is TRUE complexity, as it NEVER repeats itself! Nature never repeats itself, so all complexity generated by nature has a true complex nature, or true complexity. This is why we MUST turn human structures away from fabricated complexity or complication, to generated complexity, or agile design. Because only generated complexity is RESILIENT! This is why I have as a slogan: RESILIENCE AFTER MODERNISM! Deep Ecology was founded by Sigmund Kvaloey...

Mange av mine fotografier er tatt fra turer med denne Sprinteren. En god, gammel, fin sak, med flotte minner. På mange vis kan min gamle lastebil, med lapper på kapellet og rustsveis, sammenlignes med teddybjønen i Alf Prøysens Teddybjørnens vise. Tid for å minne om de fire Rer: REDUCE REUSE REPAIR   RECYCLE I nevnte prioritetsrekkefølge!

Audun Engh har talt arkitektene midt imot i over 20 år. Men han tror ikke vi er onde, bare at vi er medlemmer av en sekt. Og at Rem Koolhaas vil bryte ut om ikke lenge.    I en serie med intervjuer snakker vi med ikke-arkitekter som har et stort engasjement for arkitekturen. Jeg husker jeg gikk i første klasse på arkitektskolen, og det gikk rykter. En medstudent, et år eller to over oss, skulle visstnok ha reist på studietur til Cuba, i regi av Byens Fornyelse. Eller hadde han bare lekt med tanken? Det spilte ingen rolle. Han var merket. Han hadde, vitende eller uvitende, leflet med forbudt tankegods. Vi visste ikke lenger om han var en av oss. Han var smittet av «New Urbanism». Jeg lærte raskt at det betydde en forkjærlighet for symmetri og gated communities, anakronistiske liv i filmsettkopier av pittoreske småbyer – og dypt reaksjonære politiske holdninger. For vår del kunne medstudenten like gjerne ha gått på møter i Vigrid eller torturert kjæl...