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Blame the railway industry for facilitating the mass transport of standardised building materials like brick, tiles, slate. But then the railways were largely developed to solve the coal transport problem, as coal, being heavy, was expensive to transport on poor roads more than a couple of miles from the pit-head, and not everywhere had river / canal transport nearby. But then we needed coal as the UK was running out of trees to make charcoal., and we needed the timber for naval ships (to go off and pillage, colonise, enslave somewhere new, and then fight France, Spain, Netherlands etc for it too). But then we needed the coal / charcoal for iron smelting, to make war weapons and farm implements. And humanity only invented war because we setlled down and began farming instead of hunter gathering. Damn farmers, they cause so-ooo many problems...... Dr Hillary J Shaw Centre for Urban Research on Austerity Faculty of Business and Law De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH http://dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/business-and-law/hilary-shaw/hillary-shaw.aspx www.fooddeserts.org -----Original Message----- From: Jon Cloke <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Tue, 30 May 2023 12:56 Subject: The Charm of Vernacular Architecture Great Mem here on vernacular architecture for urban geographers - https://mem.ai/p/BgeMnlSrTN1sb8Ow8Jyf From The Cultural Tutor's twitter feed - https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1662878657986043905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1662878657986043905%7Ctwgr%5E3839c18da6fbcec1cb03fcff2b1ef05505ae0c90%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F%3Fp%3D252581 -- Dr Jon ClokeSenior Research Associate - ENR-DemosENR-Demos website: http://www.enrdemosproject.net/CEO Social Energy System Consultants LCEDN National Network ManagerLCEDN website: www.lcedn.com Recently published: Extending energy access assessment: The added value of taking a gender perspectiveAnnemarije Kooijman, Joy Clancy, Jon Cloke,Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 96,2023 To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CRIT-GEOG-FORUM, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/