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2. Brenda and Robert Vale - Wikipedia

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   The Self-Sufficient House: D.I.Y. Techniques for Saving Fuel, Heat and Money. BCA/Macmillan London Ltd. ISBN 978-0-333-25868-2. Vale, Brenda; Vale, Robert James Dennis (1975). The Autonomous House: Design and Planning for Self-sufficiency. Universe Books. ISBN 9780876632543. Vale, Robert James Dennis (1973). Results of solar collector study ...

3. Autonomous building - Wikipedia

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   An autonomous building is a building designed to be operated independently from infrastructural support services such as the electric power grid, gas grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm drains, communication services, and in some cases, public roads. Advocates of autonomous building describe advantages that include ...

4. Double envelope house - Wikipedia

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   Double envelope house. A double envelope house is a passive solar house design which collects solar energy in a solarium and passively allows the warm air to circulate around the house between two sets of walls, a double building envelope. This design is from 1975 by Lee Porter Butler in the United States.

5. This New Orleans couple moved to Japan and bought an ... - AOL

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   After living on a small urban farm near New Orleans and spending 15 months house- and pet-sitting ... The couple was looking to build a self-sufficient rural lifestyle but, writes Dani, they didn ...

6. Integral Urban House - Wikipedia

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   The Integral Urban House was a pioneering 1970s experiment in self-reliant urban homesteading. The house was located at 1516 5th St. in Berkeley, California between 1974 and 1984. The Sierra Club published a book about the experiment in 1979. Elements of the home included a vegetable garden, chickens, rabbits, a fish pond, beehives, a ...

7. Urban planning in communist countries - Wikipedia

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   The major concern of urban planning in communist China shifted to the recognition of the function of cities. Consequently, a nationwide effective force to restore urban master plans was started. By the end of 1984, 241 cities and 1,071 counties throughout the nation as a whole completed their master plans. [7]