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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 8, 2022, 10:35 pm
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HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/02/cats-house-fires-south-korea/
[quote]South Korean officials have a message for pet owners in
Seoul: Beware, your cat might burn your house down.
The warning comes as the capital’s Metropolitan Fire & Disaster
Headquarters estimated that more than 100 fires over the past
three years were started by cats, many of which managed to turn
on electric stoves with their furry paws.[/quote]
Clearly the real culprits are the electric stoves (and hence
Western civilization), not the cats. Did cats start fires back
when we still used pre-colonial stoves? No. But South Korean
Eurocentrists:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/south-korea-white-korea/
are incapable of thinking of Western civilization negatively,
therefore they blame cats instead.
[quote]According to the agency, 107 fires sparked by felines
were recorded between January 2019 and November 2021. Nearly
half of those were started when the owners were out of the
house, officials said.
In the recorded incidents, four people were injured. But often
the pets themselves do not survive.[/quote]
Hence:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
Back to article:
[quote]On Christmas Day 2019, a 45-year-old tortoise in Essex,
England, knocked a heat lamp onto its bedding and started a fire
while its owners were out of the house.
...
That same month, and also in the county of Essex, a dog that had
been left home alone started a house fire by turning on the
microwave, which happened to have some bread stored
inside.[/quote]
See?
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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 4, 2022, 9:43 pm
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Continuing from:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/russia-the-last-colonial-empire/msg12481/#msg12481
[quote]In the mid-1990s the mayor of Dalian, Bo Xilai, conceived
the idea of renovating the remaining Russian-era structures on
the street, adding new ones built in a Russian style, and
renaming the street Russian Street. Work on the project began in
1999 and brought in Russian architects and other experts. Eight
Russian era buildings were renovated, including the former
Russian Dalniy City Hall, six new buildings were built, and six
other existing structures were given "Russian façades" to match
the street's theme. The newly renovated street was inaugurated
on 1 October 2000.[14][/quote]
it gets worse:
HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/dalian-china-offers-gondola-rides-its-answer-venice-italy-n452921
[quote]A $1.26-billion project bearing an uncanny resemblance to
one the most iconic examples of Italian architecture has started
offering rides in a Chinese port city.
The so-called "East Montage" in Dalian is not an exact replica
of Venice, but its developer used the classical European city as
its blueprint.
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[quote]"This is an opportunity for people who could not go
abroad to enjoy the same scenery as that in foreign countries,
and expand their visions to know more about foreign customs and
practices," Dalian resident Zhang Juan said. "This is really
good."[/quote]
You want foreign? So why not build some replica Ashanti
architecture? We all know why not.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/decolonized-housing-(america-edition)/msg2003/#msg2003
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/russia-the-last-colonial-empire/msg8620/#msg8620
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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 17, 2022, 12:17 am
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What have I been saying the whole time?
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/western-architecture-making-indias-heatwaves-161426818.html
[quote]Western Architecture is Making India's Heatwaves Worse
Benny Kuriakose remembers when his father built the first house
in his village in the southern Indian state of Kerala with a
concrete roof. It was 1968, and the family was proud to use the
material, he says, which was becoming a “status symbol” among
villagers: the new home resembled the modern buildings cropping
up in Indian cities, which in turn resembled those in images of
Western cities.
But inside, the house was sweltering. The solid concrete
absorbed heat throughout the day and radiated it inside at
night. Meanwhile, neighboring thatch-roofed houses stayed cool:
the air trapped between gaps in the thatch was a poor conductor
of heat.[/quote]
Western civilization is inferior, period.
[quote]“In most cities, people have blindly followed the Western
model,” says Kuriakose, an architect now based in Chennai.
“There was no attempt to look at the local climate. There was no
attempt to look at the materials which are available.”[/quote]
There was only an attempt to be Eurocentrist.
[quote]Environmentalists are calling for a fundamental rethink
of how India builds its cities. There are some positive signs. A
growing number of sustainability-minded architects are reviving
vernacular approaches.[/quote]
Why did they ever abandon the ancient wisdom in the first place?
[quote]“Where a home [built in the vernacular style] needs
around 20 to 40 kilowatt hours per meter squared of energy for
cooling, today some commercial places need 15 times that,” says
Yatin Pandya, an architect based in Ahmedabad. When AC units are
turned on to help people sleep at night, they release heat into
the streets, which can increase the local temperature by around
2°F according to U.S.-based studies. [/quote]
Repeat after me: Western civilization is the most inferior
civilization ever to have existed in world history.
[quote]A climate comeback for vernacular architecture
A movement to revive more regionally-specific styles of
architecture—and combine them with modern technologies—is well
underway in India. Over the last decade, thousands of
architects, particularly in the experimental township Auroville
on the east coast of Tamil Nadu state, have promoted the use of
earth walls and roofs; earth absorbs heat and humidity, and it
can now be used to build larger and more complex structures
thanks to the development of more stable compressed blocks. In
the dry hot northern city of Ahmedabad, which has suffered some
of the country’s deadliest heatwaves in recent decades, Pandya’s
firm Footprints E.A.R.T.H., uses careful orientation and
overhanging roofs and walls to shade its buildings from heat,
and central courtyards for ventilation.
“We are course-correcting now,” says Bangalore-based architect
Chitra Vishwanath, who built her own home and hundreds of other
buildings using earth. Larger universities are teaching students
to build in a climate-specific way, she says, while nonprofits
and artisanal construction firms are running workshops teaching
this approach to architects and small-scale builders. “Younger
architects who are graduating today are extremely sensitive to
climate,” Vishwanath adds. “I would say in another 5, 10 years
westernized style buildings won’t be built so much.”[/quote]
Let's hope so. But we still need to destroy all Western
architecture in all the former Western colonial powers.
[quote]some traditional features, like sloping roofs and
detailed window shades are too expensive for many people to
consider when building their homes. Perhaps most importantly: in
cities, the high cost of land makes it extremely difficult to
find space for verandas and courtyards.[/quote]
Land would cost less if there were more of it available per
person. The return to pre-colonial Indian architecture must be
combined with mass emigration to bring the population remaining
in India back down to roughly what it was prior to the colonial
era. Meanwhile, the emigrant population can get on with
destroying Western architecture in the former Western colonial
powers that they immigrate to.
[quote]Pandya, the Ahmedabad architect, puts it another way.
“Sustainability is not a formula—what works in Europe might not
work here,” he says. “Like a doctor, you have to understand the
patient, the symptoms, the conditions—before you arrive at the
cure.“[/quote]
The cure is to kill Western civilization completely, everywhere,
permanently.
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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 19, 2022, 8:24 pm
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This is what happens when a Eurocentrist government of a former
colony preserves instead of demolishes its colonial-era
architecture:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/historic-black-white-bungalows-most-070702094.html
[quote]A British family moved into a 100-year-old Singapore
house that had been sitting empty for 2 years and slowly turned
it into their dream home. Check it out.
There are only 500 black-and-white colonial houses left in
Singapore.
The historic homes are protected and managed by the
Singapore Land Authority (SLA).
Interior designer Elizabeth Hay showed Insider what it's
like to live in one of these coveted bungalows.
Elizabeth Hay moved to Singapore from the UK in 2013 with her
then-fiancé, Tim. The two of them — now married with three
children — have been living in a black-and-white colonial
bungalow since 2015.
...
"While the government does the basics, everything else we had to
put in ourselves. Things like air-conditioning, water heaters,
it's all your responsibility," Hay said.
...
"All of the soft furnishings, the painting, and the wallpaper,
all that really evolved over time because I was having a baby,"
she said. "I just wanted to get in first and then I did
everything else when I had more time."
Hay estimates they spent S$40,000 to S$50,000 ($28,800 to
$36,000) renovating the house and installing an air-conditioning
system.
...
A big part of the reason why Hay loves the black-and-white
bungalow is because of its rich history.
"We've had older people and older couples show up at the gate.
Some were children here 60 years ago or something. They want to
come and see the house and how much it's all changed," Hay said.
The couple plans to continue living in Singapore and has no
intention of moving at the moment. With their fourth child on
the way, the couple is looking for new ways to furnish the house
to accommodate their growing family.[/quote]
They also look like what we would expect:
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As for the Singaporean government:
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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 23, 2022, 8:18 pm
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How architecturally colonized is Japan? See for yourselves:
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[quote] In December 2009, the main building, the main gate and
the garden with fountain were designated as a National Treasure
of Japan.[1][/quote]
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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: SirGalahad Date: May 23, 2022, 9:25 pm
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Some might try to say "Well it's only natural for it to look
like that since it's a guest house constructed by the Japanese
for non-Japanese", but could you ever imagine any of the western
powers constructing a guest house that looks stereotypically
Chinese or Arab for example? In reality, non-westerners go
through the effort to construct a western guest house for
western visitors, and when non-westerners visit westerners, the
non-westerners are still expected to stay in a building with
western architecture. And none of what I'm saying is even the
most egregious part. The most egregious part is that these
Japanese politicians expect all non-Japanese visitors to stay at
western-style guest houses, even though many visitors will be
non-western
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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: guest55 Date: May 24, 2022, 1:13 pm
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Air-Conditioning Invented In 3100 BCE? Ancient Tech Windcatcher
[quote]The answer to that is yes, ancient technology could play
a huge role in our modern lives if the Researchers, Engineers
and Architects figure out a way to make this doable in all
locations.
Of course we have to take microclimatic conditions into account
and it does rely on local weather, but it could possibly be that
Wind Catchers may be the air conditioning of the future.
The ancient Wind catchers of Yazd, a city in Iran with some
unique Persian Architecture.
The nickname of the city of Yazd is “the City of Wind Catchers”,
but it’s also well known for its underground channels
transporting water called Qanats, it’s ice houses known as
Yakhchãls and its traditional reservoirs storing water known as
ab anbars.
These are features that made the inhabitants of this city
survive the hot desert climate, on a yearly basis there are only
23 days of precipitation with a total of 49 millimetres making
this the driest major city in the entirety of Iran.
In 2017 UNESCO put the historical city of Yazd on the world
heritage site list, and quite a large part of that decision was
because of the wind catchers, this city might have the largest
number of wind catchers in the world.
The invention of the Wind Catchers may have occurred in Ancient
Egypt around 3100 BCE during the Early Dynastic Period, but Yazd
is the city with possibly the most wind catchers in the world as
they were one of the biggest reasons this part of the Iranian
Plateau became inhabitable.
It’s a shame that many of the city’s wind catchers have fallen
out of use over time, but the city did draw scholars, engineers
and architects to it to possibly aid in our modern dilemma of
Air-conditioning use and how that is affecting the climate.
Because wind catchers don’t need electricity to function they
could be incredibly important in areas where the electrical grid
is unreliable and expensive.
It would make air-conditioning available in places where there
isn’t even electricity.
The shape of the tower, the layout of the house, how many
openings the tower has, the internal blades and sections, the
height and the direction in which the tower is facing are all
specifically adjusted to improve the wind catcher’s ability to
draw the wind down into the rooms of the building.
Some buildings have a subterranean pool where the air flows over
for further cooling, which I personally think is a smart option
if you have the room for it.
A wind catcher is never by itself, but always accompanied by at
least one other wind tower on the same building.
The Wind catcher catches the wind, which is then funnelled down
and will flow throughout the building, the cool air will flow
underneath the warm air, and the pressure will push the warm air
upwards which then rises and flows throughout another wind tower
which in turn releases the warmed up air.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC8BU4GdFzc
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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 14, 2022, 8:45 pm
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More non-Western air conditioning:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pfr-Yum8nI
The Western air conditioner, in contrast, is a microcosm of the
entire Western approach to 'solving' problems:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/msg10539/?topicseen#msg10539
namely to make the problem worse than if nothing were done at
all, but in such as way as to transfer its effects onto those
whom the Western problem-'solver' does not care about:
HTML https://energyeducation.ca/wiki/images/thumb/7/70/ACcycle.png/500px-ACcycle.png
Western air conditioners increase total heat(!!!), but merely
pumps it outside, thus cooling the inside (at least until
eventually the heat outside gets back in).
Non-Western air conditioners do not increase total heat, instead
cooling by making heat dissipation more efficient.
It should be obvious which is worse.
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Termites >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Westerners
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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 23, 2022, 2:21 am
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Let's talk about lawns again. Previously:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/decolonized-housing-(america-edition)/msg5521/#msg5521
[quote]Lawns may have originated as grassed enclosures within
early medieval settlements used for communal grazing of
livestock, as distinct from fields reserved for agriculture.
...
Lawns became popular with the aristocracy in northern Europe
from the Middle Ages onward. The early lawns were not always
distinguishable from pasture fields. The damp climate of
maritime Western Europe in the north made lawns possible to grow
and manage. They were not a part of gardens in other regions and
cultures of the world until contemporary influence.[7][/quote]
In short, Western civilization is the most Turanized
civilization.
[quote]Eventually even the grasses of the Great Plains were
overrun with European species that were more durable to the
grazing patterns of imported livestock.[12]
...
According to study based on satellite observations by Cristina
Milesi, NASA Earth System Science, its estimates: "More surface
area in the United States is devoted to lawns than to individual
irrigated crops such as corn or wheat.... area, covering about
128,000 square kilometers in all."[24][/quote]
Also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg37/#msg37
[quote]Greater amounts of chemical fertilizer and pesticides are
used per surface area of lawn than on an equivalent surface of
cultivated farmland,[44] and the continued use of these products
has been associated with environmental pollution, disturbance in
the lawn ecosystem, and increased health risks to the local
human and wildlife population.[45] It has also been estimated
that more herbicides are applied per surface of lawn than are
used by most farmers to grow crops.
Lawn maintenance commonly involves use of inorganic fertilizers
and synthetic pesticides. These cause great harm. Many are
carcinogens and endocrine disruptors. They may permanently
linger in the environment and negatively affect the health of
potentially all nearby organisms. The United States
Environmental Protection Agency has estimated[when?] nearly
32,000,000 kilograms (71,000,000 lb) of active pesticide
ingredients are used on suburban lawns each year in the United
States.[47][/quote]
In short, Western civilization is the most inferior
civilization.
Additionally:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg41/#msg41
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/state-subverters/msg10536/#msg10536
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/olympics/msg7795/#msg7795
Just in:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/leaf-blowers-lawn-mowers-and-fertilizer-how-lawns-contribute-to-climate-change-190726545.html
[quote]sequester carbon, support pollinators, support a food
web. And the other is to manage the watershed. A lawn is the
worst choice in all of those four ecological goals,” Douglas
Tallamy, a professor of agriculture and natural resources at the
University of Delaware, told Yahoo News.
For climate change, the single biggest problem is not what a
lawn does, but what it doesn’t do. Every plant stores carbon
dioxide — the most widespread heat-trapping gas that is causing
global warming. The more carbon that’s stored, the better it is
for the environment. But not all plants store the same amount of
carbon. Broadly speaking, the amount of carbon sequestered
correlates to the size of a plant and its root system. That’s
why logging old-growth trees, which tend to be taller than
younger trees, is particularly bad for climate change.
Compared to other plants that could grow in a yard, like bushes
and trees, lawn grass has a very shallow root system. Much less
of it grows above ground, especially if you cut your grass every
week to keep it neat and short. “In terms of carbon
sequestration, lawns fail,” said Tallamy, the author of
“Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts
in Your Yard.”
Then there’s the lawn maintenance and machinery that many
Americans use to cut and clean their lawns: gas-powered lawn
mowers and leaf blowers. According to the Environmental
Protection Agency, gas-powered lawn mowers use 800 million
gallons of gasoline — and spill an additional 17 million
additional gallons of oil — every year. The two-stroke engines
used by lawn mowers and leaf blowers are especially dirty
because they do not combust about 30% of the fuel they use,
which releases volatile organic compounds.
A 2014 study found an idling scooter with a two-stroke engine
releases 124 times as much volatile organic compounds as an
idling car or truck. The EPA states that using a typical
gas-powered lawn mower produces as much volatile organic
compounds and nitrogen oxide — a powerful greenhouse gas — as
driving 11 average new cars over the same timeframe. In total,
according to the agency, lawn mowers account for 5% of American
(non-climate) air pollution. On top of that, many lawns are cut
by a gardener who visits regularly, burning gasoline on the way
there and back.
“Lawns are fossil fuel-dependent, period,” Douglas Kent, a
landscape contractor who teaches at Cal Poly Pomona, told Yahoo
News. “They don’t have to be, it’s just how we maintain them —
the mowers, the blowers, the edgers.”
Then there are the emissions associated with making fertilizer.
The most important ingredient in fertilizer is typically
ammonia, which contains nitrogen that helps plants grow. Ammonia
is made at high pressure and at high temperatures. So it
requires a lot of energy, which is usually supplied by fossil
fuels like coal and natural gas. Ammonia manufacturing is
responsible for more than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
“[Lawns] are huge nitrogen consumers, and nitrogen is the most
energy-dense nutrient that we manufacture,” Kent said.
“When you add all that energy we’re dumping in lawns and compare
it against the amount of biomass that’s being stored in the soil
and the tissue, you come up with 1 acre of lawn [that]
contributes approximately 3,112 pounds of carbon dioxide per
year, which has the energy equivalent of 156 gallons of
gasoline,” Kent added. (He made that calculation, drawing on
previous research for the data inputs, for his book, “A New Era
of Gardening: A Book on Gardening for Oxygen and a Healthier
Atmosphere.”)
Many of the same attributes that make most well-manicured
American lawns a net contributor to climate change also cause
them to fail Tallamy’s other sustainability tests. Fertilizer,
for example, typically comes mixed with herbicide to kill off
weeds — the two-in-one products are referred to as “weed and
feed.”
But a person’s weed is an insect’s food. The weeds that
pollinators depend on, such as clovers and dandelions, are being
systematically eliminated from lawns every day. And pollination
is the very basis of biodiversity.
“Most vertebrates don't eat plants directly: They eat things
that eat the plants, mostly insects,” Tallamy observed.
Likewise, short, regularly cut grass does not absorb much water
— an increasingly important task as climate change leads to more
flooding from heavier storms — and that runoff can funnel
fertilizer and herbicide into lakes, rivers and oceans,
potentially poisoning fish and harming swimmers.
“Lawns are destroying our watersheds, because, first of all,
they don’t hold the water that other plants are holding,”
Tallamy said. “It’s almost like paving the ground during a hot,
dry summer.”
Grass is the most prevalent irrigated crop in the U.S., and
lawns use 3 trillion gallons of water per year. Due to the
warmer temperatures and more severe droughts associated with
climate change, water scarcity has become a crisis in much of
the West, forcing local governments to limit the amount of water
residents can use outdoors, although many homeowners are
reportedly ignoring the rules.[/quote]
In short, the more ways we measure it, the more inferior Western
civilization is revealed to be. And all because of the Turanian
blood memory.....
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Re: Decolonized Housing
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 4, 2022, 11:47 pm
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HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-firm-prepares-hand-over-093000050.html
[quote]China is preparing to hand over a new US$140 million
parliament building as a gift to Zimbabwe - the latest in a
series of grand projects across Africa designed to deepen its
influence in the continent, where it is the largest trading
partner and lender.
The site at Mount Hampden, about 18km (11 miles) northwest of
the capital Harare, heralds the start of a new city.
The 650-seat building will replace the current 100-seat,
colonial-era building which Zimbabwean officials consider too
small for the country's 350 legislators.[/quote]
WE WILL REPLACE YOU!
This is the new building:
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(The guys in the Western suits somewhat spoiled the otherwise
encouraging photo, however.....)
[quote]Sitting on the top of a hill, the imposing circular
complex, which has been built by China's Shanghai Construction
Group, is fully paid for by Beijing.[/quote]
The choice of shape is likely inspired by:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe
Continuing:
[quote]The contractors said the facility was now ready to be
handed over, 3½ years after construction started on a project
that employed more than 500 Chinese technicians and 1,200 local
workers.
"There is no doubt that the new parliament will become a
landmark building in Zimbabwe and even in the whole of Southern
Africa," Shanghai Construction Group manager Libo Cai said on
Wednesday.
"It will be yet another milestone for the China-Zimbabwe
friendship which keeps getting stronger year after
year."[/quote]
All Rhodesian architecture must be demolished! Examples
(contrast with the Zimbabwean architecture above):
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[img width=1280
height=872]
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