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Edited Jan 18, 2010, 21:10
Re: Earthquake resistant housing
Jan 18, 2010, 21:09
Buckminster Fuller had a well-documented and, as I undertstand it, widely accepted, theory about cheap-to-build domed structures being more resistent to these kind of natural calamaties but I am no engineer.

http://challenge.bfi.org/application_summary/421

http://www.designboom.com/history/tensegrity.html

Presumably domes are really bad for land-use efficiency when compared with box housing and stacked blocks of your average city.
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