Wrath Of Gnonさんのイラストまとめ

You can do high density in small areas if you do it well. Heidelberg Altstadt is a Baroque city mostly built in the 1700s, half a mile across. Houses of 800-1200ft², front to street and back to courtyard, 2-4 floors. You could easily house 68,000/km², 2.5 times modern Manhattan.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries publish a manga about trees & forestry. Here's the page dealing with Quercus serrata, the jolcham oak, konara. One of the main coppice trees of Japan (you cut and new shoots soon appear), used for charcoal, mushroom cultivation.

It is probably more likely that a city like Palmyra had two story buildings more similar to ancient Pompeii, but with flat roofs more like ancient Egypt. Obviously there was little space for gardens or pools though.

This is such a charming book: The Houses in Children's Literature by Setsuko Fukai. Texts and illustrations showing homes and houses in famous works of children's literature: Little Red Riding Hood, Harry P, etc.

Lovely artwork on Havana, Cuba, made by @ND_Arch, likely the only accredited school of architecture teaching classical architecture in the U.S. You could easily build a Second Havana on (for example) the Texas coast: sustainable as long as you leave the cars out of it.

Albrecht Dürer painted this in the summer of 1494, possibly proud of his countrymen's technological innovations. An industrial landscape with villages. The focus is a wire drawing mill, recently invented here in Nuremburg and powered by the river Pegnitz, producing copper wire.

It was used on cloth in Tibet (here ca. 1200-1250 A.D.) and on linen canvas in Europe (here The Annunciation by Dieric Bouts, Louvain, Belgium, ca. 1450-1455).

Wildlife played a large part in recycling phosphor from ocean to land. It is obviously impossible to restore even a fraction of this system if we are to keep our modern lifestyles, but the principle of bears and whales recycling phosphorus is fascinating.
https://t.co/uokvD69XEo

@maolchallann @MythicalIberia Straw is a wonder material.

...natto (fermented soybean), Edo style sweets (rice dumplings, red bean paste, etc.), seasoned food (soy sauce, salt, miso, etc.). Some of these stalls were literally carried around and would stop to serve any customer who fancied a bite. Others served in semipermanent stalls.