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The average useful lifespan of a tram in inner city traffic is 60 years. For a bus, it is 10 years. For a car, 8 years. #TrainTwitter A modern tram

What do all great and sustainable neighborhoods and towns have in common across the world? What makes for a humans scale? Here's what I have found and it concerns these

When you live in a semi-tropical climate with fiercely hot and humid summers, near the ocean with its constant salt loaded winds, and you can only build with wood, how

Human scaled cities are the baseline for #GoodUrbanism. Cities where you can walk anywhere you need to go in a quarter of an hour means for example you get the

Last night I watched some historic rural costume drama and I noticed how ridiculously bad the grain fields were portrayed. All these multi million dollar productions and they can't even

The evolution of urban homes in Havana, 16th c. to present in four images. Up until the 19th c. homes had good thermal comfort all through the year, never going

The 1937 Gardendale Project was a trial of rammed earth as a technique used in mass produced affordable homes in Alabama, USA. In terms of cost they were comparable to

Classical architecture is not of one single culture or people or era. It is of the human universal and the core of the human experience, which is eternal. 5000 years:

It is hot. How did our ancestors stay cool indoors in the summer? Let's look at the Royal Wanganui Opera House, the last Victorian theatre to be built in New

Sustainable forestry: lumber without cutting down trees. Daisugi is a Japanese forestry technique where specially planted cedar trees are pruned heavily (think of it as giant bonsai) to produce "shoots"

The courtyard house can be found in almost any culture and climate where the summers can be uncomfortably hot. Here are some charming courtyard houses from Syria. Courtyards typically take

The old walled city of Shibam, Yemen, has been inhabited at least since the 3rd c., an example of perfect desert urbanism. A pop. of 7000 living on 0.03 square