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More arts and culture, conserve open spaces, build a vibrant downtown…What’s your vision for ‪#‎Reno‬? Share your ideas by taking the quick and easy ‪#‎ReImagineReno‬ Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/reimaginereno

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Terraces picked out by snow

Agriculture in mountain regions is always a tricky proposition, but once the human population in agricultural societies increased beyond the carrying capacity of the fertile lowland floodplains, more marginal land had to be brought into use, within the vagaries of that century’s climate. Britain’s highland regions are often infertile granite or limestone, and were traditionally used as pastureland for sheep or goats. In the Himalaya, where many of the rocks are sedimentary mudstones rich in organic matter from the bottom of the Tethys sea that once separated the continents of India and Asia, or amongst the volcanoes of Indonesia with their fertile mineral rich soils, terraced agriculture has been the mainstay of subsistence since time immemorial.

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As part of my PhD research, I spent quite a lot of time at the Fort Hoofddijk (informally known as The Fort) - the palaeomagnetic laboratory of the University of Utrecht (in the Netherlands). For a little insight into what carrying research out in a 19th Century bunker, housed within the grounds of the botanical gardens of the University of Utrecht is like, take a look at this blog post that I wrote a while back.

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Agrarian Urbanism is a method of design that incorporates and intensifies agricultural activity across the Transect, promoting a variety of associated economic, environmental and social benefits

http://www.dpz.com/Initiatives/AgrarianUrbanism

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This a documentary on the concept of Car Free ciites

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You can export files to #AUTOCAD

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Cities are back in town : urban sociology for a globalizing urban world by Patrick Le Galès