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>making affordable living spaces is easy if the laws and NIMBYs allow it Buckminster Fuller discovered this back in the 1930's with the Dymaxion House. https:
by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
>making affordable living spaces is easy if the laws and NIMBYs allow it
Buckminster Fuller discovered this back in the 1930's with the Dymaxion House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house
>"The first Beech-produced Fuller House was widely publicized. Soon 36,000 unsolicited orders, many with checks attached, were received for the Fuller House... None of the building codes would permit their erection. The severest blow of all was that both the national electricians and plumber's organizations said they would have to be paid to take apart all the prefabricated and pre-installed wiring and plumbing, and put it together again, else they would not connect the otherwise "ready to live in" house to the town's or city's electrical lines and water mains. They held exclusively the official license to do this by long-time politically enacted laws. No banks were willing to provide mortgages to cover the sale of the Fuller Houses."
-Grunch of Giants
- carapace 10y agoThis is the deeper form of the issue: Bucky pointed out that, by some time in the 1970's, we would have the technological capability to create a physical Utopia for all. The challenge he posed is "to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offence or disadvantage of anyone”
- whybroke 10y agoI know unions are a popular whipping boy on hn but blaming them for today's overpriced housing? And up-voting this nonsense? wow