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Karaba Brick Quarry David Pace
Karaba is a small African village in southwestern Burkina Faso. Outside the village, a short distance from the dusty main road, is a quarry where men carve bricks from solid stone using only picks and shovels.
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Cappadocia / Turkey (by Graeme Churchard).
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Approaching Abiang, Kiribati
About 1.5 hours North of Betio, South Tarawa by boat, the people of Ribono village on Abiang Island brought us coconuts and sea worms to eat while our guide gave a gift of tobacco to the chief…
photos by T DeVoss, 10/2014
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A walk through Ribono village, Abiang, Kiribati - 10/14
Ribono village is close to perfection, the villagers live in harmony with nature - fish and coconuts abound. Ribono was unfortunately the site of the trip’s greatest disappointment. The elder woman of the village wanted to ceremonially place palm frond crowns on our heads and give us a tour of the entire island, but we had to decline as we didn’t have enough time. I don’t think she understood our time constraint and clearly felt very insulted.
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Future Cities Noah Addis
“Future Cities is a series of photographs of informal settlements and unplanned developments in the world’s cities. These communities take on many forms, but they share a common history. People, mostly migrants from rural areas, came to the city in search of work. They were in need of affordable housing that could not be found on the open market. So they claimed a small piece of unused land and built a home. Other residents followed, and the result was a new community within the city.”
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Timothy Allen
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Masuleh İran
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Nevsehir, Central Anatolia, Turkey
you have to go there before you die…at least one time…
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the korowai tribe, who live in the hot and humid rain forests of #west papua, communally build homes entirely by hand, some as high as 35 meters off the ground. they are large enough house a dozen, and offer better ventilation and protection from insects and ground flooding. photos by george steinmetz. video on bbc human plane
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Village on the Bank of the Niger River | Mali (via deskribe)
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A Tuareg village in the Ubari area, Libya
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Burkina Faso, Tiebele (by a2portfolio)
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Brikiti Village, Papua New Guinea
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The Wind Catchers of Hyderabad 1928 - Photo from the book “Architecture without Architects” by Bernard Rudofsky.
The city of Hyderabad in the Sindh province of Pakistan was once dominated by a roofscape of towering wind catchers, or “bad-gir”, as they were known locally. These fixed wind scoops would provide ventilation to the whole household in the hot summer days. The heating of the chimney would cause cool air to be drawn from high up and would then be channeled through the rooms and out the front door. This method had been in use in the city for over five hundred years, but has now mostly been replaced by mechanical air conditioning with the chimneys being used to install satellite dishes.
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Shabono structures by the Yanomami
From southern Venezuela and northern Brazil, the Yanomami built Shabonos as temporary dwellings for the whole community. Built using thatched palm leaves and wood these structures were built in clearings in the jungle. Each family would have their own personal area within the Shabono.
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Ma-Adan - Iraq
The marsh dwellers have populated the Edenic wetlands for almost 5000 years. They were an almost completely self sufficient community with the marshes producing everything they needed to survive. Sturdy reeds reaching 20 feet became raw material for homes, baskets and boats, while tender reed shoots provided plentiful forage for water buffalo, who provided milk and dung, used as fuel for fires.
The marsh-dwelling people who in the 1950’s numbered about half a million people, have now dwindled to as few as 20,000 in Iraq. The Edenic wetlands that once gave refuge to a rich variety of wildlife have become lifeless, nearly waterless, salt-encrusted mudflats, since Saddam ordered the water source to be cut off just before he lost power. Today the Eden Again Project is attempting to release water back into the marshes, with the hope that the communities will return to their original site.