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Pavilion of Listening to Springs. Lofty Messages of Landscape. Your strength of conviction can be effortlessly super charged by accessing the innate powers of nature. Urban planning could be much better.
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The Living City – The Rise and Fall, and Rise Again of Sir Patrick Geddes
Patrick Geddes is regarded by many as the father of citizen participation, and is renowned for his theories based on the “autonomous community” and “bottom-up” planning. He pioneered the place-making approach, was founder of the urban conservation movement and originated the phrase, “Think Global, Act Local”.
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The dérive (French: "drift") is an unplanned journey through a landscape, in which participants stop focusing on their everyday relations to their social environment. It was first publicly theorized in Guy Debord's "Theory of the Dérive" (1956)
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La Plata is a planned city in Argentina, created upon the urban planning paradigm of the late 19th century and designed in a very strict grid-pattern form. Its many avenues and diagonals result in a quite satisfying geometric symmetry when seen from above.
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What the world's cities need now: Expansion of nature on six lanes - Art by @RuediWidmer
Art by Quino
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Evolution of sanitation throughout human history
Evolution of sanitation throughout human history, from 'Early civilization and the middle ages Era', to the 'sanitary awakening and advent of water-borne sanitation era', through to the 'waste water reclamation and eutrophication control Era', and possible future 'Ecological sanitation Era'. Source: Redrawn from Gumbo (2005).
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"All of our cultural forms of identities our sense of place, our ideas of belonging, are related to nature" - Art by Julia Louise Perreira.
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This Art Nouveau storefront in Rue Royale, Brussels, was originally designed by Paul Hankar in 1896 as a shirt shop. After years of abandonment, it was restored & now operates as famed floral artist/designer Daniel Ost’s flower shop.
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Energy use in terms of KJ per KM and per Mass for various modes of transportation and animals
