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News & ArtsFriday, September 2, 2011
Architecture House of the Week: Imba on Beacon Hill
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:36 AM
There is a touch of Zimbabwe in this Beacon Hill house...
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"There's a wicked witch under the house and everything's in color!"
There's no Shona in Google Translate yet, Charles, but I take it you're thinking about joining the landed gentry.
There's no Shona in Google Translate yet, Charles, but I take it you're thinking about joining the landed gentry.
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I once lived in a house like that on Beacon Hill. Sloped floors and no gutters. Warm and comfortable. The rent was cheap. Beacon Hill is full of these small, lovely surprises. It's a neighorhood where time and development has largely passed.
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nice find; one of my fave houses in the same vein is a rickety little treasure hidden in the hill directly west of the dearborn goodwill. It's a thin weathered shell thats had its guts re-purposed as a veiled, illicit techno-lab. See: the final scene in goonies when the old pirate ship floats out of the cave. it reminds me of that. When the wood gets to point thats its living again, in the form of lichen, moss, spiders etc.
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Stare at it a little longer. Maybe someone will rob it and you can do nothing but write about it later.
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http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/2011/09/s…
http://tinyurl.com/3end9un
Study says Zimbabwe capital worst city to live in
By: ANGUS SHAW | Associated Press | 09/01/11 8:18 AM
A top research group on Thursday rated Zimbabwe's capital as the worst of 140 world cities in which to live.
The British-based Economist Intelligence Unit said its researchers excluded cities in Libya, Iraq and other war zones.
Harare, where power and water outages occur daily, scored a 38 percent "livability rating," the group said.
The group said the threat of civil unrest and the availability of public health care and public transport in Harare were intolerable. Energy and water supplies were undesirable, it said, calling phones and Internet services uncomfortable.
Zimbabwe formed a shaky coalition government in 2009 after years of political violence and economic meltdown. Melbourne and Vienna were rated the two easiest cities to live in.
The research group is a respected economic and risk consultancy linked to the Economist magazine.
The annual global cities survey advises companies on the level of hardship employees face and recommends pay adjustments for those who move to cities where living conditions are particularly difficult, with "excessive physical hardship or a notably unhealthy environment."
A livability rating — compiled onsite in the cities by experts and statisticians — given as 80 to 100 percent means there are few challenges to daily living standards such as housing, health, education and transportation. Fifty percent or less means most aspects of living are "severely restricted," the group said.
Harare's rating highlighted continuing "bleak prospects" for the capital's population of nearly two million, the survey said. It said quality housing was available for only the wealthy, and that quality private education was available in the city, but it is costly and takes good teachers away from Harare's impoverished government schools.
Cities across sub-Saharan Africa had an average livability rating of 50 percent, compared to 92 percent in Western Europe and 91 percent in North America.
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http://tinyurl.com/3end9un
Study says Zimbabwe capital worst city to live in
By: ANGUS SHAW | Associated Press | 09/01/11 8:18 AM
A top research group on Thursday rated Zimbabwe's capital as the worst of 140 world cities in which to live.
The British-based Economist Intelligence Unit said its researchers excluded cities in Libya, Iraq and other war zones.
Harare, where power and water outages occur daily, scored a 38 percent "livability rating," the group said.
The group said the threat of civil unrest and the availability of public health care and public transport in Harare were intolerable. Energy and water supplies were undesirable, it said, calling phones and Internet services uncomfortable.
Zimbabwe formed a shaky coalition government in 2009 after years of political violence and economic meltdown. Melbourne and Vienna were rated the two easiest cities to live in.
The research group is a respected economic and risk consultancy linked to the Economist magazine.
The annual global cities survey advises companies on the level of hardship employees face and recommends pay adjustments for those who move to cities where living conditions are particularly difficult, with "excessive physical hardship or a notably unhealthy environment."
A livability rating — compiled onsite in the cities by experts and statisticians — given as 80 to 100 percent means there are few challenges to daily living standards such as housing, health, education and transportation. Fifty percent or less means most aspects of living are "severely restricted," the group said.
Harare's rating highlighted continuing "bleak prospects" for the capital's population of nearly two million, the survey said. It said quality housing was available for only the wealthy, and that quality private education was available in the city, but it is costly and takes good teachers away from Harare's impoverished government schools.
Cities across sub-Saharan Africa had an average livability rating of 50 percent, compared to 92 percent in Western Europe and 91 percent in North America.
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