‘Throughout history human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonise-destroy-move on.
Garrett Hardin, “On Creative Destruction,” c. 1990
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Chapuisat Brothers, La Résidence Secondaire, Vercorin, Switzerland, 2012 (via archidose)
Lebbeus Woods, Nine Reconstructed Boxes, 1999 (via wired)
Rinderpest Virus or Medieval City Plan? (via archiveofaffinities)
"Rinderpest was an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and some species of wildlife. The disease was characterized by fever, oral erosions, diarrhea, lymphoid necrosis, and high mortality. After a global eradicationcampaign, the last confirmed case of rinderpest was diagnosed in 2001. On 14 October 2010, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announced that field activities in the decades-long, worldwide campaign to eradicate the disease were ending, paving the way for a formal declaration in 2011 of the global eradication of rinderpest."
"Communes in Europe during the Middle Ages were sworn allegiances of mutual defense (both physical defense and of traditional freedoms) among the citizens of a town or city. They took many forms, and varied widely in organization and makeup. Communes are first recorded in the late 11th and early 12th centuries, thereafter becoming a widespread phenomenon. They had the greater development in central-northern Italy, where they were real city-states based on partial democracy."
