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New development in Clamart, in the southwest of Paris. 35% is social housing
Donβt believe when they say you need high rises to increase population density.
Manhattan has 28000 people per sqkm.
Paris has up to 50000 in the inner city.
Without any high rises. Except for Tour Montparnasse, which everybody hates.
Gentle density is the key
It is in a park that was sponsored by the king, made so that it fits the buildings in the environment.
If this happened today it would just be a concrete box
Maxwerk hydro plant, 1895
Deafness?
Covers of the eponymous magazine βJugendβ. The style has become famous as Jugendstil, Germanyβs version of art nouveau. 1897-1914
WrocΕaw
As you pass through the Czech republic you can occasionally pass by some wonderful old industry buildings. These two are from the area that were in the formerly predominantly German speaking part. Looks almost as if they are of the same type, despite being 160km apart
Time and again, visual preference studies show that when given a choice most people (more than 80%) prefer traditional over modernist designs.
And yet, those making decisions mostly decide in favor of unpopular solutions. This is the crux of our cities these days
In Munich they are replacing 70 year old school buildings with new ones that will last 50 years.
Czech architecture magazine from the 1800s
Coffee
Wonderful Prague
So why again donβt we being back aerosols
We've entered the Era of Consequences.
All this additional heat will translate to higher temperatures, faster sea level rise and more extreme weather.
Mostly over the Northern Hemisphere, where 7 out of 8 billion people live.
academic.oup.com/oocc/article...
With the announcement that M&S Oxford Street demolition proposals have been green lit, how do we create growth people want rather than growth people fear? A more sustainable & better path was possible...
What a shame
Building the small house from small things π€
by DreaMi MP on youtube
Berlin Potsdamer Platz - now and then
Recent door collection
Itβs quite simple to go beyond designs of the last 100 years and make them beautiful
1. create a good shape
2. add a level of detail
3. add another level of detail
4. maybe add a third one
Calle de la Mantilla, Cartagena, Colombia.
People are willing to walk a lot farther when you make it a pleasant walk.
City hall in #Munich - details
Seoul
Seoul has a birth rate of 0.5 children per women, one of the lowest in the world.
It is dominated by a sea of high-rises, the kind that is associated with low birth rates.
As Christopher Alexander once stated: vertical streets make people avoid each other; horizontal streets are meeting places.
Germany's energy transition roadmap, by ChatGPT Consulting Ltd.
tl;dr: Build out wind and solar, and use a combination of pumped hydro (also in neighboring countries) and electrolysis / storage of H2 to reach carbon neutrality within 15 years.
Seems like the way to go.
