tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70901913478047320492024-03-13T07:21:10.790-04:00Intro to Architecture Weblog (WAC 2009)The collective weblog for ARCH100_09Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-14290895752635533292009-11-10T22:56:00.004-05:002009-11-10T22:59:51.738-05:00Referencing References<span style="font-family: Sabon MT;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of Don, the following comes from a remarkably good little guide to citing sources:</span><br />
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Checkmate pocket guide<br />
By Joanne Buckley<br />
Available from Thompson/Nelson<br />
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White One:<br />
Stanley Sun<br />
Stephanie Fleming<br />
Iggy So<br />
Megan Baker<br />
Sam Eby<br />
Nathan Tung<br />
Desiree Geib<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #006600;"><i>If the world were a village of 100 people, 50 of us would be malnourished, and one would be dying of starvation.</i></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>There is a constant struggle to try to make the food industry meet the needs of the world population. Our culture’s large energy consumption and use of fossil fuels has reduced international food production as well as the part of the economy tied to the food industry. The processes used in the food industry have also contributed to the effects fossil fuels have on our environment. We need to find methods to decrease the amount of energy consumed by the growth, production, and transportation of food, thereby protecting our economy and the food industry.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://www.familycare.org/news/if_the_world.htm">http://www.familycare.org</a>Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-90224488413290557042009-11-02T19:57:00.004-05:002009-11-08T17:54:04.733-05:00Red Three<a href="http://arch100r3.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">3</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span>In the year 2050 it is projected that there will be 9.1 billion human beings on the planet, each person requiring 13.2 gallons of water a day to assure survival and meet basic needs; sanitation, bathing, cooking. Currently 884 million people lack access to safe water, mostly in developing countries. These countries lack the large scale infrastructure necessary to distribute water adequately and will be burdened with almost all of the projected population increases. These countries also lack infrastructure systems adequate to deal with wet waste disposal and to support agriculture. Large scale infrastructure is expensive and it is extremely unlikely that it will see significant developments. For this reason a move to on site methods of water and wet waste treatment will be necessary to support the growing population, in terms of sanitation, availability of potable water, and agriculture. This group blog will identify strategies for water conservation and reuse as well as how theses systems and methods can be combined with more effective wet waste disposal and efficient agricultural practices. Irrigation practices are evaluated and compared to real world irrigational issues in Jordan. Water reuse and wet waste disposal issues are also studied providing methods of effectively treating waste water for reuse agriculturally; real world applications in Peru are discussed. Additionally, Biogas digesters are an alternative waste treatement method that is investigated illustrating opportunities to dispose and reuse waste efficiently, applicable once again agriculturally. Finally, water supply and agricultural issues in mexico city are evaluated and possible solutions are investigated.Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-30328177836030508672009-11-02T19:14:00.006-05:002009-11-17T16:22:04.064-05:00Red Two<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Our group is...<br />
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Anahita<br />
Hourmazd <br />
Jeff <br />
Mark<br />
Milda<br />
Samuel<br />
Victoria<br />
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We're discussing shelter, transportation, and water.<br />
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<div class="post-body"><div>An urban area is a place with high population density. Rather obviously, a skyline made up of tall, closely-spaced buildings usually marks the nucleus of urbanity. Housing is densely arranged, and as infrastructure is built, there is little land left for construction. Essentially, urban areas are characterized by their unique shelters, and the people that occupy them. This gathering of people in a centralized area is driven by basic life-instincts. Why do we move or migrate? We move to seek a better life, whether through more rewarding careers, better education, improved services or a more stable and safer environment.<br />
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Water is an important symbol for urbanization and life. After all, early settlers built their homes near water for survival. The transition from agriculture to urban dwelling is closely tied to essential resources, and the ways we access them. Developments in transportation enabled this change from small communities, to large cities, to metropolitan areas. Without any of these factors, development comes to a halt, and people cannot come together to live as one. We depend on each other to survive and in this exercise - Urban Survival Kit: The File - we will examine how shelter, water and transportation are needed to survive in subsistence urbanity. <br />
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Agriculture, Wet Waste Disposal, and Food<br />
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This blog looks at the technology and theory of agriculture, food, and wet-waste disposal in an urban context. It is a consideration and reconsideration of how these systems, essential to survival of urbanism, are constructed.Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-55059550311048392012009-11-01T18:55:00.000-05:002009-11-01T18:55:11.713-05:00The Hierarchy of Help<ol><li>Read the course outline (if you don't have this, skip to step 5, make a copy, return to step 1)<br />
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<li>Read hand-outs from class (ditto)<br />
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<li>Read e-mails (and attachments) from your prof<br />
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<li>Read e-mails (and attachments) from your TA<br />
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<li>Ask your TA</li>
<li>Ask your prof<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Centering around the topic of shelter, innovations in water and agriculture technology have forged a new path in architecture. With populations increasing worldwide, we've been forced to deal with emerging slums which can't be viably sustained in the face of increasing global warming and rising water levels. Urban design has taken on a new goal: that of balancing overpopulation with our environment.</span> <br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Lucida Sans";">Welcome to White 2's Weblog - a compilation of our team's research into the role of energy and its relationship to food and shelter in subsistence urbanity.</span>Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-66185354666656463922009-11-01T15:55:00.003-05:002009-11-08T17:26:16.272-05:00BLUE 2Blue 2 Group Blog: <a href="http://blue2arch100.blogspot.com/">http://blue2arch100.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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Agriculture<br />
<span class="caption">Subtopics: Water, Shelter</span>Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-48321406826530110812009-11-01T12:50:00.009-05:002009-11-01T15:03:02.223-05:00Aristotle's Four Causes<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, in his <a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.html">Physics</a>, describes the causes of a form, the factors responsible for the form of an object. In order to know a thing, four questions must be asked of it:<br />
</div><blockquote>What is it made from? (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material">material</a> cause);<br />
What is its form or essence? (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form">formal</a> cause);<br />
What produced it? (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_%28biology%29">efficient</a> cause);<br />
For what purpose? (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purpose">final</a> cause).<br />
</blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">This <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thesis">thesis</a> (or perhaps doctrine) can be stretched (often metaphorically) to apply itself to complex states, organizations, ways of being, but it is most at home when it is used in the discussion of biological objects and artifacts. Even then, <span style="color: #990000;">because the boundaries between animate and inanimate things are blurred in an epistemology that sees all things in a dynamic state, a state of change (even intrinsically alive)</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #990000;">the causes are not formulaic. </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Plato</span> tried to <b style="color: #0b5394;">resolve the problem of a changing world</b> by postulating that, <span style="color: #0b5394;">“behind” or “inside” every (imperfect) thing (no matter what that thing) there was an essentially pure idealization of the thing, a static, enduring essence.</span> <span style="color: #38761d;">Aristotle</span>, on the other hand, <b style="color: #38761d;">worked to describe that dynamic world without resort to a parallel, perfect, one.</b> <span style="color: #38761d;">Aristotle questioned the causes of changes in order to understand the nature of things in a dynamic world: </span>What is responsible for this change? What brought this thing into being? What will take it away? Matter takes on, or looses, form. This is change, change comes about causally. Aristotle saw a dense, perhaps endless web of causality, and sought the means to describe it, by <b><span style="color: #38761d;">describing the causal relationships among the objects</span></b>, large or small, from which the <b style="color: #38761d;">world</b> is made.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">From <a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.3.iii.html">Physics, Book II, part 3</a>:<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>Material cause: “that from which, (as a constituent) present in it, a thing comes to be … e.g., the bronze and silver, and their genera, are causes of the statue and the bowl.”<br />
</blockquote><blockquote>Formal cause: “the form, i.e., the pattern … the form is the account of the essence … and the parts of the account.”<br />
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Efficient cause: “the source of the primary principle of change or stability,” e.g., the man who gives advice, the father (of the child). “The producer is a cause of the product, and the initiator of the change is a cause of what is changed.”<br />
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Final cause: “something’s end (telos)—i.e., what it is for—is its cause, as health is (the cause) of walking.”<br />
</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of all of these, it could be said that <span style="color: #38761d;">Aristotle set purpose, the final cause as the pre-eminent cause for change, the first of the four causes to give an object form</span>. In this exercise, <i>use Aristotle’s causes as a <b>framework</b></i> to <span style="font-size: large;"><b>consider</b></span> the <a href="http://wac09arch100.blogspot.com/2009/11/chart-iii-point-line-and-plane-in.html">factor</a> you have chosen.<br />
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(an additional excerpt from Physics (<a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.2.ii.html">Book II, Part 3</a>) is included in the Assignment 3 Supplement - reading it carefully will help you better understand Aristotle's Four Causes and apply them effectively to this assignment)<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Working individually, and in a team, <span style="color: #38761d;">gather and edit and organize dependable research material </span>on one of the factors of <a href="http://wac09arch100.blogspot.com/2009/11/chart-iii-point-line-and-plane-in.html">CHART III</a>: The Point, The Line and The Plane in a <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Subsistence Urbanity</span> and relate that factor to two others on the list, <span style="color: #38761d;">in order to begin to develop an architect’s version of an Urban Survival Kit</span>. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This <span style="color: #38761d;">obsessive classification</span> makes an <span style="color: red;">assumption</span><b> </b>[<a href="http://www.answers.com/assumption">Something taken for granted or accepted as true without proof</a>], and, in a world where the urban populations of the developing world are doubling, it is a naive assumption. The assumption: <span style="color: #990000;">Civilization (the culture of cities) will gravitate to larger, more coordinated urban orders, requiring greater scale in each part, even as the coordinating grid that underlies it becomes substantially finer in grain and ever-more dependant on ever-greater degrees of precision.</span> In a world where we depend for our day-to-day life on telecommunications satellites, coordinated by private corporations and governments powerful enough to launch them, we tend to take the underlying network for granted, because – even if we hold its evidence in our hands – we do not see it.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It would be a mistake to assume that urbanism has to become thicker and more hierarchic, more systematic (as we understand systems – as physical infrastructures) over time, in order for it to mature. We understand that cities that rival New York in size now exist, <span style="color: #3d85c6;">cities where there has been no effective power grid, water supply, or waste management system for a half-decade or more</span>, and we see those cities continue to grow. That is, the network of lines has degenerated significantly, yet life goes on. <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #990000;">What we begin to see is a city, not of points in a network of regulating lines over a plane of unregulated existence kept deep in the background,</span> but rather <b>a city of</b> <b>points on a plane, a plane ordered, if at all, by nothing more than the rotting vestiges of a net</b>, a net that no longer serves to mediate the plane. Across vast scales, <i><b>local knowledge rules</b></i>.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Water, waste, trade, communications, training</span>... all these go on in an entirely different milieu. These are subsistence settlements on a vast scale, almost unanticipated, and likely to house one in six of the world’s people within thirty years, IF energy shortages and drought do not force much of the population out of the equatorial countries. Add that possibility into the equation, and the numbers will be much higher. <span style="color: #0b5394;">Urbanism, for these people, becomes a matter of subsistence, of survival, and <span style="color: #990000;">not a matter of the coordination of vast technical systems.</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What distinguishes these emerging cities from slums of the past is this:</b> <span style="color: #0b5394;">they may never have the central infrastructure we expect of cities, and they may be able, over time, to do without it.</span> This may be possible, and it might be successful, because, <span style="color: #0b5394;">in place of a physical infrastructure, they can reach a super-infrastructure,</span> <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">a communications infrastructure that could organize the settlement, the community, more fluidly.</span></b><br />
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</div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: justify;">We already know of those places in the world where cellular telephone systems have been providing telephone service where no wired service existed, or where it was a failure. We know of semi-rural communities in developing countries that have been able to pick their best market days because the village has a cell telephone and receives text messages of the market prices for their produce; in those places, it becomes possible to bid up the supply, and organize growers. We also know now about microcredit banking systems that have been changing economies in urban, semi-rural, and rural societies (which are becoming, in practice, a continuum, rather than distinct zones of density.)<br />
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</div><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">Over a century ago, most of America was rural, and after the land began to play out, much of rural life was a life of indentured servitude, hardship, misery, and hunger. In the southern US, where there were only two crops of note – tobacco, and cotton – a farmer was likely to sell his crop to the only merchant within reach, who traded it up the distribution network. That single merchant was also usually the only source for goods – seeds, boots, garments, fabrics, processed foods – and he could sell goods of any quality for any price. Goods were usually of terrible quality, and priced as high as the market would bear. The Railways and the Post Office changed that. With that infrastructure in place, distant merchants could buy the best-valued goods that could be made at the time in large numbers, and distribute them via the post offices. The buyers were guided by the mail-order catalogues, and the mail-order houses – located at the hub-point in the distribution network, Chicago – grew large enough and powerful enough to break the grip of the local merchants, deliver better good for better prices, and in so doing, free the farmers from a subsistence way of life.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That was one kind of infrastructure. Now we have another, and this one may be more like the catalogue and less like the railroad.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #0b5394;">There is some evidence the emerging slums of the world are a new urbanism</b>, one that is, at first consideration, both frightening and dismaying. <span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Only with some study over time can we begin to see how these places – worlds away from ours, housing a vast number of the world’s population (the census is, by its nature, almost impossible) – may show us other ways of organizing cities, ways that are effective in entirely different measure from our own ambitions for the city.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Term’s exercises are all about beginning to come to terms with a shift. The subject is Architecture, but the issue is survival in a subsistence world.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">D.M. (formatted and posted by s)<br />
</div>Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-54602100116720202462009-11-01T12:05:00.005-05:002009-11-01T13:09:35.921-05:00Informal Urban Settlements<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Portraits From Above: Hong Kong's Informal Rooftop Communities </b></span><br />
Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham<br />
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<i>“You have to be careful. It is very dangerous up there.<br />
Those places are filled with thieves and drug addicts. It<br />
is easy for them to hide from the police on a rooftop –<br />
if you don’t know the place, you’d get lost for sure…”</i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> photograph by Stefan Canham</i></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> photograph by Stefan Canham</i></span><br />
</div>Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-81095535432942214672009-11-01T11:52:00.002-05:002009-11-01T13:07:56.439-05:00CHART III: The Point, The Line, and The Plane in a Subsistence UrbanityA. Water<br />
<blockquote>supply and conservation<br />
</blockquote>B. Wet Waste Disposal<br />
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C. Garbage Disposal<br />
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D. Energy<br />
<blockquote>supply, production, and conservation<br />
</blockquote>E. Agriculture<br />
<blockquote>animal and plant husbandry<br />
forestry<br />
</blockquote>F. Food<br />
<blockquote>production and supply,<br />
distribution<br />
</blockquote>G. Shelter<br />
<blockquote>land tenure, settlement pattern<br />
building technique<br />
</blockquote>H. Economies<br />
<blockquote>labour and employment<br />
trade & exchange<br />
</blockquote>I. Transport<br />
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J. Learning, training, skill exchange, knowledge workIntroduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-15159590243303585462009-11-01T11:03:00.003-05:002009-11-08T17:24:00.152-05:00Blue OneBlue One's blog is here: <a href="http://arch100-b1.blogspot.com/">http://arch100-b1.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3><div class="post-body entry-content"> <div>We are exploring the concept of shelter (including land tenure, settlement patterns, and building techniques) in subsistent urbanity. To further explore subsistent urbanism, small investigations are made into water supply and conservation, and wet-waste disposal. In an urban subsistent existence, particularly in informal settlements, how do humans learn to cope? What methods can be used? And what, essentially, is needed to survive? </div><div><br />
</div><div>When the traditional systems, that we have come to take for granted, fail which new systems will develop? It is not only through subsistence urbanity but also through regulated aims at sustainability that we must adapt in order to survive. Researching current projects and ideas regarding informal settlements and settlement networks will provide a better understanding of what techniques and technologies should be included in an architect's toolkit.</div><div><br />
</div><div>-Blue One</div></div>Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-46219689193456746672009-10-31T17:14:00.003-04:002009-11-08T17:31:16.252-05:00Blue ThreeI assume this is where we are supposed to put our links? If not, someone comment and I'll move it to the right spot.<br />
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Anyways, I'm pretty sure my group is B3, so here's our blog<br />
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<a href="http://architectureb3.blogspot.com/">http://architectureb3.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<i>-Alex Bodkin</i><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande',serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">884,000,000 people do not have access to clean drinking water. Everyday nearly 6,000 people die due to water related illnesses. This blog focuses on technologies and systems that help to correct this issue as well as other information on water and it's relation to agriculture and the economy in the slums of the world.</span></span><i> <br />
</i>Introduction to Architecture Waterloo Architecture Cambridge Fall 2009http://www.blogger.com/profile/15307618848867663257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7090191347804732049.post-19705682734659558132009-10-27T20:35:00.001-04:002009-11-01T13:05:48.630-05:00On Blogging<div style="text-align: justify;">This collective blog is where you will be able to find posts on blogging, links to your individual blogs, and other useful info for ARCH100.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'll post some tips and tricks for building your blog, examples of other great blogs on architecture, art, culture, etc., and thoughts on blogs and blogging.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can all post on this blog, add comments and edit the layout - this is <span style="font-style: italic;">your</span> class blog so please participate! at the same time, be respectful of other people's work and be conscious of the public nature of the blog - it represents this school and your class.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Good luck, have fun, and experiment!<br />
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