Thorough narrative about historical architectural plans to maximize the solar exposure of apartments, particularly in the context of achieving high population density. The common thread of broad lanes, tall flat buildings with sloped roofs (in Paris, London, and the Barcelona Eixample) seems to be present in Nieuw-Zuid as well, which is (almost) contemporary with those expansion plans.

Pictures of the buildings of Isay Weinfeld; gorgeous, dramatic architecture, but there's nothing clinical or cold about any of the pictures, even though the forms are largely rectangular and white. Why?

A blog about arrangements to make optimal use of relatively small living spaces.

" ... I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only rarely did I venture into userland programming, but when I had occation to do so, I invariably found that people programmed like it was still 1975 ... "