Wrath Of Gnon

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    6 Jul 2017

    It is time for a thread on traditional urbanism, or town planning 13th century style. I will dispel some myths of modern dis-urbanism.

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  2. Retweeted
    13 Dec 2017

    Jospeh Rykwert citing Varro and Livy on how Greeks and Romans defined space. All traditional faiths (pagans, Japanese shinto etc.) acts in this manner: consecrated centers. Book faiths too but much less so. Moderns have forgotten these lessons so we end up with sprawl instead.

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    5 Jan 2018

    Carrel (noun) a small cubicle with a desk for the use of a reader or student in a library. a small enclosure or study in a cloister. Row of the 20 carrels in Abbey of St. Peter (now Gloucester Cathedral), built in 1381-1412.

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  4. 16 hours ago

    The townhouse is the most sustainable and human scaled class of urban architecture ever invited. Let's revive them. (Lambert & Stahl, Stuttgart, 1890 - 1891)

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    17 May 2018

    "The field must look back in humility to study not what is the latest in Los Angeles or Milano, what is oldest in Boston or Siena." — Victor Papanek on Traffic and urban planning (from the book "The Idea of Design").

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    17 May 2018

    “Modern planners are so concerned about traffic that they have stopped thinking about anything but the fastest movement of cars & the attendant problems, as if the only function of the city is to serve as a racetrack for drivers between petrol pumps & hamburger stands.” — Papanek

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    17 May 2018

    Victor Papanek (1923-1998) )writes on the the motivations of traditional vs. modern town planners. The text is full of good quotes and insights, not least his quoting of André Gide and Aristotle.

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    3 Jun 2018

    “The Department of Transportation, in its single-minded pursuit of traffic flow, has destroyed more American towns than General Sherman.” — Andrés Duany

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    5 Oct 2017

    Reading Witold's account of staying in Palladio's Villa Saracen. Original interior walls almost 500 yrs. old. Unimaginable in today's bldgs.

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    26 Dec 2018

    “The biggest obstacle to change is the way we have been constructing houses, offices, roads, cities, and suburbs for decades; all around us, the need for air-conditioning is literally set in concrete and steel.” — Stan Cox, Losing Our Cool, 2010

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    10 Feb 2018

    Furnish your mind, read old books.

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    9 Apr 2018

    “It is a fertile source of error, when treating a question relative to society, to consider it by itself, with no relationship to other questions, because society itself is only a group of relationships.” — Louis de Bonald, On Divorce

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  13. May 12

    Here is a better idea: set up a fund to restore the medieval hall, training and then employing those "poor people" to do the actual work, give them equivalent land nearby, let them build their own homes. Unless you prefer feeding the usual rent seekers...

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  14. May 12

    Swedish carpenters recreate 11th century woodworking method. Long but cosy.

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  15. May 12

    Italian . San Salvatore di Sinis, Venice, Bologna, Cesena.

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  16. May 12

    Still one of the best and widest ranging independent/personal blogs on urbanism out there.

    Parking is harmful to small businesses
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    1 Jul 2018

    Compared to the highway, travel by rail is far less intrusive on both the destination and the countryside it has to pass through.

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    May 11

    Are bees the most powerful race?

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  19. May 11

    The materials and workmanship is as poor as the architecture itself. This is supposedly the best of the best, in the most famous city on Earth. On par with everything else Progs build these days.

    Look at this utter embarrassment.
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  20. May 11

    Now here is a little darling I know! A Western Honey Bee.

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  21. May 11

    Kusaya is a Japenesd traditional island dish of salted dried fermented fish. The brine it is salted in is passed down generations and the oldest brines have been in continuous use for over 300 years. Is this the oldest human foodstuff in existence?

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