The Boston African American NHS is a chance for visitors to understand 19th-century African American communities in Boston. The site preserves buildings and stories central to the Underground Railroad, Civil War, and abolition era. #4. Fords Theatre National Historic Site Wknight94 // Wikimedia ...
If you are in charge of the parcel you have in mind, I strongly recommend researching social dynamics of intentional communities, and the homeless population, before offering squatters' rights. When the afflicted outnumber the healthy, chances favor a downward spiral. ...
Now an experiment on freshwater sediment (沉积物) communities exposed to microplastics for over a year helps clarify how harmful this pollution can be. Researchers put trays (托盘) of sediment littered with different amounts of polystyrene (a very light soft plastic) particles (颗粒) — ranging ...
The low expenses and small ecological footprint of tiny house living are becoming ever more enticing. A vast state with diverse regions spanning from beachside communities to desert-dwelling to mountainside living, California offers everything a tiny house builder could want. New opportunities for ...
In June 2014, Shelley and Joshua, a young couple from Northern California decided to drastically downsize their lives and with a custom built tiny house on wheels. Just recently their tiny home and story was featured in Issue 27 of the Tiny House Magazine. Their 224 sq. ft. home is now ...
Why? Because whether or not all who live in tiny houses believe in this, creating "human sized" dwellings, with an emphasis on decreased consumption and increased environmental care, is really the only way we can house our population in a sustainable way. The next generation of home owners ...
Back home in San Francisco, the email chain is Mr. Klein’s primary online community, as he pines for his East Coast retreat. 回到旧金山的家里后,邮件组就成了克莱恩最常去的网络社区,因为他很怀念自己在东海岸的那个隐居地。 Sunday nights are rough, he added.“It’s when everyone is driving...
I sat there and took it all in, soaking up the sage advice like a sponge. “I just want it all to mean something, you know?” Once again, I couldn’t shake the fear that I would return home from my life after nine months on the road to find that nothing had changed. ...
View this post on Instagram A post shared by PWP Landscape Architecture (@pwpla) 100. You may have heard of this free-to-enter oasis in the sky but if you haven’t, cancel your plans and head up to the latest urban park that sits 70 feet above the street, is 4 blocks long, and...
This stage demonstrated the potential of adaptive reuse in revitalizing communities and reclaiming architectural icons. The second phase of the renovation, carried out by the firm Mikhail Riches, sought to build on this initial work by introducing new elements that deepened the connection between the ...