RT @RobertKwolek@twitter.com: Kyu Asakura House is one of the only surviving timber houses to escape Tokyo's WWII bombing. Built in 1919 as the private home for Tokyo assembly chairman Torajiro Asakura, it’s an incredible time capsule and beautifully maintained, both the home and the surrounding gardens. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7775b74b891d8529b97fbfc0cfeb1f2105baac086358191307e920616454a7af.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3f0a790ccad8d5531c95cd25a39b4cfc39f9124f2bf417f1f8369addb5775cea.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c105c89de03336f5055caf924c933adc5ab9da3110601f627d9ba5056f0347ee.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4b87e9790e967d9f789470f20fe3f46c1ab8aa81d3e83cc6933062736e859105.file

Article from 2021 but the situation in America is getting worse year by year. Rising estrangement in families and among relatives is probably a key factor in the explosive rise in homelessness.

The Conversation

Family rifts affect millions of Americans – research shows possible paths from estrangement toward reconciliation

A researcher who studied family estrangement identifies the main reasons behind it and how people can find a path to reconcile and heal family rifts.

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The ongoing Cultural Revolution in the West: "The data paints a troubling picture of U.S. adults stretched thin between societal division and personal disconnection." https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2025/11/nation-suffering-division-loneliness https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a6d421908d2bff4bf91afa89dc59ba25f192ba6f1744b8e25e835546e533a9c9.file

The money in solar isn't in electricity, it is in installation. Once that is done the solar power farms are more or less abandoned and when it comes time for major maintenance and/or removal, the owners are long gone, having disappeared in a maze of sub-contractors and international schemes. Left with the mountains of toxic waste, ruined land, irreversible pollution, are the people. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8528d58706b68ddd94acec9c83abeb6ed69ff5a0de437beee9e6952848c80d5e.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/91c2ff789fcdc21bc2957267c04297c75622d4f66b932e93e90c912519f74c3a.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/78b422f5a8d1aad2602aef5ceda775a9487bb3bcb5b218e0c22f36f97e833bdb.file

Japan is still the poster case for declining birth rates even though almost all developed countries have even lower birth rates by now. The reason of course is that while Japan's decline started decades ago, it is a shock to the system of Europe, Asia and North America. Japan has by now decades of experience of birth rate decline (or the corresponding "aging society"). It behooves other countries to closely study Japan and draw lessons from it: what to do, what not to do, what to expect, what to fear. Of course the lessons would be more easily applied of the West were still largely homogenous and cohesive. Still, the least we can expect of competent leadership is a vision of sorts, a relatively believable picture of our countries in five, ten, twenty, fifty year's time. The fact that no such plans or visions or even statistics come up is of course ample proof that our leadership is both incompetent and hostile. You'd better be prepared for compounding hardships. Things are about to become far far worse.

RT @cremieuxrecueil@twitter.com: The British Medical Journal's Journal of Medical Ethics has published a defense of female genital mutilation. After reading their case, I'm not sold. I still think we should ban female genital mutilation. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f22ec2e5e0590356f3c2467f8f55b61fa9ed80293e65515fb3295f7c8a59db70.file

RT @Trad_Arch_Bdays@twitter.com: Happy birthday, Carl Lendorf. December 13, 1839 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Carl Lendorf - Wikipedia

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RT @michael_diamant@twitter.com: 🇹🇷 THEY ARE ALSO TIRED OF MODERNISM: A beautiful thing with internet is how ideas spread like wildfire. In architecture people have realized all over the globe that they are not alone in disliking modernism and yearn for a beautiful and meaningful built environment.🧵 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7584342200b9d7310888b7416d392ebb11393130463b8f6ca3a4b77f34790798.file

Shozo Tanaka (1841-1913), a farmer, was elected headman of his village at the unprecedented age of 17, and devoted his life to the conservation of nature against mining corporations and oligarchic government. His famous quote is difficult to translate, but it reads something like “True civilization does not despoil the mountains, nor befoul the rivers, nor ruin the villages, nor kill the people.” https://hell.twtr.plus/media/1f22db7aab5cae6acda7e6c3ba3d762d85a30aa9399e9ee99bd48cfe3d6ac82d.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8226546ffe8166a887ea025ee84c3860d2b9d716af878cbffe3f9ee9d90280ef.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/909c19765f6047f655045e300d53bf9a52c53459f92117d7f1d05238f6bb9d48.file

"Notre Dame’s Walsh School of Architecture hosted a conference and exhibition in honor of late architect Léon Krier on November 23-24."

Irish Rover

Architecture Hosts Conference in Memory of Famous Architect, Urbanist - Irish Rover

Architects, professors, and students celebrate the life and legacy of Léon Krier

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