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A Swedish municipal government let the public guide them on what kind of architecture would be realized in a new development and in the end this beautiful revisit of gold

Three myths of cars: 1. Without cars we can't get around. It is because of all the space devoted to cars and car infrastructure that we need them to get

So how do we fix unsustainable cities and suburbs? How do we go back from the machine scale to the human scale? In the same way that a one-size-fits-all sort

Bamboos flower extremely rarely, some species only once every 120 years. According to folklore bamboo flowering is a serious harbinger for misfortune & trouble. Starting in 2018 until now many

No city is complete without walls: they define it and protect it from sprawling uselessly over the surrounding countryside. Now we can add one more qualification to the endless resume

In this historically cold winter, let's take a look at the two traditional ways of heating the Japanese home: the rural irori (囲炉裏) and the urban hibachi (火鉢). Japanese homes

The reason we can't build cheap rail anymore is because we always want to start with the perfect, latest, cleverest and shiniest technology. Far more complex and far more expensive

Edo, (old Tokyo 16th/17th-late 19th c.) had a clever system to administrate half a million townspeople and keep the security at the same time: by delegation, to jishinban (left) and

Homelessness is a symptom that makes everything else much worse for everyone involved, not least the tax payer. The good thing is that we already know how to solve it.

“Bigness is pervasive in America as nowhere else in the world.”— Human Scale Revisited, by Kirkpatrick Sale If true, that the most productive factories are those “with fewer than forty-five

So how do we build dense cities that can function with less electricity, or even off-grid? Here a Dutch street, mid-18th century, let's look at it in detail. Notice the

Comfort is not something we moderns invented. The Abbey of Reichenau in southern Germany had central heating already in the 9th century. They used a Roman invention, a hypocaust floor,