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reddestijl:

Human Landscapes in SW Florida

Circular layouts of homes near I-75, southwest of Fort Myers, Florida. Map. (© Google) #

via thebigpicture

clearperspectives:

Look at your suburbs, now back at me

In Copenhagen, Denmark, there is an area unlike any other. Some may say it’s a waste of space. Some may be upset at forest that was apparently chopped down to make it.

Regardless of how it makes you feel, it’s definitely something you won’t see anywhere else.

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Atomurbia: Responding to Atomic Threat by Moving Everyone Everywhere. 1946

And that bad idea is this: relocating and dispersing the entire population of the United States into a geometric grid-work covering all parts of the country, emptying all American cities into a vast nothingness of exurban Atomburbs. 

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Listen: the crux of the issue was to remove everyone from any American city with a population greater than 50,000 people and place them in newly-built communities set out across the country’s landscape (mostly) like a chess board, the towns existing on all of the connecting lines. [As weird as this sounds, the great Norbert Wiener came up with a similarly astounding, untouchable idea using circles.]. The authors proposed to build 20,000,000 new homes, relocate industry (preferably underground), reallocate and redistribute energy supplies and natural resources, and recreate the very fabric of social and economic life in America.  

via Ptak Science Books