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Luxury for All

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By George Sand, Gideon Fink, Gideon Fink Shapiro
| Places Journal
Left behind in the digital era is a rich store of essays on design which have limited cultural presence because they are not online. In our ongoing series Future Archive, we republish significant archival texts, each selected and introduced by a prominent scholar. Grotto and cascade at the mare aux biches (doe’s pond), part of an extensive water system installed by Adolphe Alphand, chief engineer of parks and gardens, in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Photographed by Charles Marville, 1858–60.
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Kiruna, Forever Changing

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By Gideon Fink
| Places Journal
Architect Ralph Erskine’s unbuilt proposal of 1958 featured renewable energy and protection from the north wind. Lars Harald Westman, illustrator. [ArkDes Collections] A sturdy reindeer stands in the foreground of architect Ralph Erskine’s 1958 conceptual drawing, “An Ecological Arctic Town,” its head bowed toward a cozy, colorful settlement ringed by a circular megastructure topped with windmills and solar panels. The town opens to the sunny south and walls itself off from the harsh north.
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