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A Low Tech Fictional Future

Reader beware: my first fiction

How to Build a Home that Lasts a Thousand Years

Tradition in the building arts explained the long way around, in three easy to remember rules.

The Alluring City

A philosophical inspection in which the author suggest a different way to approach the question of how to best create the kind of towns and cities in which we want to dwell.

How To Heal a Mountain

The short story of how Kumazawa Banzan, a Japanese 17th century multi talented samurai scholar and ecologist, figured out a way to restore eroded hillsides and mountain tops to forest covered fertility.

The 100 Year Well

This short post can be seen as a follow up, using a concrete example, on the earlier discussions of what constitutes the human scale as it relates to towns, cities, materials and technology.

Suddenly, on Halloween

Suddenly, on Halloween, everyone gets it. And on Christmas. We send our children out to trick and treat, and suddenly we get it.

The City as an Eco System

Or, Nature Loves Edges: It is almost like there is some universal law of nature that dictates that the more fractal, the more fine grained, the more edged and bordered a habitat is, the more diverse and the more of a wealth of life it can afford to harbor.

The Human Scale: Part III

Even Further Defintions of the Human Scale as it relates to town and cities. Human scaled materials are those that can be sourced, used, maintained, dismantled, and reused by hand.

The Human Scale: Part II

Further Defintions of the Human Scale as it relates to town and cities, focusing on growth.

The Human Scale

Defining the Human Scale as it relates to town and cities: Part I

Reading “Architecture for the Poor”

Hassan Fathy Rediscovers Traditional Egyptian Architecture. A reading of a few pages in the famous 1969 with my running commentary.

Sustainable Infrastructure

The case of the Kyoto canal, or, building cities that can last a thousand years

How to Build a Small Town in Texas

Of all the questions I get on Twitter the most common is this: “How do you build a town?” We know how it used to be done, but these last two centuries we have forgotten how to do it.

Traditionalism, sustainability, localism, urbanism.

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