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Chapters

Front Cover

Contents

Introduction

The Mount Pleasant Road Story

Our Recent Yesterdays

An Innovator Ahead of His Time

The Audacious Improvisors

The Cost of Commitment

New Life for the Inner City

In Search of Eldorado

Designing for Cyclones

The Watergarden and the Endless House

Lord Deliver Us from Experts

Education for Living

Bread and Mudbricks

Back Cover


Alternative Housing

Contents

Author: Alistair Knox

Introduction

The Mount Pleasant Road Story
The environmental lifestyle

Our Recent Yesterday
A personal recollection

An Innovator Ahead of His Time
The beginning of an idea

The Audacious Improvisors
The individual approach to building

The Cost of Commitmen
The Boer and the computer engineer

New Life for the Inner City
A case study in community action

In Search of Eldorado
An attainable dream

Designing for Cyclones
The fusion of engineering with nature

The Water Garden and the Endless House
An alternative to suburbia

Lord, Deliver Us from Experts
Survival in a dismal economy

Education for Living
The surprising discovery

Bread and Mud Bricks
Ingredients of the Environmental Lifestyle


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