Dense living

Dense living

I just found an interesting aggregation site called "Dense Living."   It brings together blog posts, tweets, and other internet items, under the banner,

"Dense Living: Most of the worlds population will live in cities. Let's look at this trend and its consequences.”

Here are a few of the entries:

• Dense designs
• Is new urbanism sustainable?
• Theory of evolution links cities, science, fractal geometry
• Urban sprawl around Istanbul
• Did ancient cities have urban sprawl?  (sound familiar? it should).
• Paolo Soleri: a vision of dense, liveable cities

By the way, some of the densest settlements ever occupied on earth are early Iroquois villages. They were extremely dense because the long-houses were packed in behind palisades on hilltops for defensive reasons.

Check out "Dense living" for some interesting news and stories.