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Sweden Is Building the Largest City Made from Timber
- bdhcuidbebe 2y agoGuess they forgot why Sweden stopped building cities in wood in the first place… But hey, it is cheap! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fires_of_Stockholm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fires_of_Stockhol...
- jodleif 2y agoIt’s not cheap. I think it’s mainly a sustainability and prestige thing.
- bdhcuidbebe 2y agoIt is cheaper than the other option, concrete.
- dsq 2y agoI read an Astrid Lindgren children's book which had one of the characters die while saving his brother from a fire that burned part of the (Swedish) city.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoGiven conflict in that part of the world, are wooden buildings a security risk since they can more easily be set on fire? I’ve read that mass timber has fire resistance but I can’t imagine that’s comparable to the fire resistance of concrete and steel.
- baobun 2y agoClickbait- and misleading headline. The story is about one private property developer project in a suburb of Stockholm. Not some government initiative.
- aboardRat4 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-medievalism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-medievalism