Came on this morning as I was here working on a big shift in Shelter Publications’ future output on building.
Nutshell: from country to city,
i.e. from Walden to Detroit
Small Houses in Cities
Stay tuned…
This is such a perfect song:
Tired of Being Alone by Al Green on Grooveshark
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
This is just one website profiling the abandoned buildings in Detroit….
Pretty crazy.
http://www.detroiturbex.com/content/
Quote: "Nutshell: from country to city, i.e. from Walden to Detroit"
Sorry Lloyd, I'm not lovin' it…
It took way too much time, money and energy to disentangle myself from the last city I lived in, and that's exactly what it was, the LAST city I'll ever live in.
Maybe our ideals will cross paths again, assuming that shelterpub doesn't totally turn it's back on rurality.
Peter had a look at the site you posted…Sad.
I see so many articles on the abandoned buildings of Detroit and elsewhere, and always feel sadness. What a loss for the persons who lived/worked there. What a loss they are not at least "rescued" for reuse or use of parts.
Lloyd,
ran across this, great site
also, scroll down the page
a ton of giveaways, thought some of them might interest you.
http://www.motherearthnews.com/ogden_contests.aspx?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Welcome&utm_content=B
Lloyd, this is a link off of those giveways, fr link above
but I could so see this on your homestead….
http://www.motherearthnews.com/chicken-starter-kit-2015.aspx
if you do enter and win any of these things, hope you will
let us know/pics.