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You must have never lived outside of a city if that is your perception of buildings. Most of the buildings I have seen in the European countryside are made wit
by pclmulqdq 3y ago
You must have never lived outside of a city if that is your perception of buildings. Most of the buildings I have seen in the European countryside are made with a significant amount of wood. Even brick and stone buildings will often have a timber structure. Most buildings are not in cities, in general.
Scandanaivans use a particularly large amount of wood, even in their city centers and even for skyscrapers.
- throw310822 3y agoI guess it depends on the region. In Italy, the vast majority of buildings, both in the city and in the countryside, are in stone, bricks and concrete. In some mountainous region in the second half of the 19th century there was a mandated reconstruction of old buildings in bricks and stone to prevent fires. In northern Europe the building style is entirely different and most houses still have a wooden frame.
- elihu 3y agoI believe AAC is really popular in Europe too (which I suppose could just be considered another form of concrete, but it provides decent insulation, making it more suitable to colder climates).
- danans 3y ago> Most buildings are not in cities, in general. Citation? It doesn't stand to reason given that most people live and work in cities, not in rural areas, especially in Europe [1]. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.RUR.TOTL.ZS?locations=EU https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.RUR.TOTL.ZS?location...
- pclmulqdq 3y agoMost people live and work in cities, but most city buildings house far more than one person.
- danans 3y agoI'm including suburbs and towns in my definition of "cities", meaning urban settlements. I'd like to see some quantitative data either way.
- wongarsu 3y agoI'd wager that even under that definition most city houses in Europe house more than one family. At least in continental Europe, I am not so sure about Britain. But most of Europe doesn't have extensive single family home suburbs in the way the US has.
- 8372049 3y agoIndeed: https://frich.no/wood-hotel-by-frich-s https://frich.no/wood-hotel-by-frich-s