A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a "greener" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, includingdesign (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what is inexpensive and sustainable. Included are sections discussing urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, and dealing with septic waste, and all information is applied to three distinct tropical regions: humid areas, temporate areas, and desert climates. Hundreds of explanatory drawings by van Lengen allow even novice builders to get started."
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It's wild to me that American colleges are like entire cities unto themselves. Like, there's campus clinics, police, dorms of course, sports, clubs, everything in just one institution. That just seems questionable to me.
They're the only places in this entire shithole country where there is anything like a community
Death to America
This is what I missed most when I was out of college. I grew up in rural America, and it was the first time I ever experienced living in a place where there was actual public space besides parking lots and shitty malls, and there were actual things to go do with other people.
i think thats why people miss college, idk that very many people miss physics exams and shit.
i miss some of my classes but yeah the community was by far the most important part i think
Its a response to the society around the school not providing any of those things (besides cops) and the university doing them in search of reasons to raise prices even further
Mine keeps buying buildings nearby creating food deserts so people on their campus have to eat at their places.
Just a nice way to stoke division and isolate the working class communities in places like Durham, North Carolina, New Haven, Connecticut, and the south side of Chicago.