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Sustainability experts and advocates have long called for concentrating most of the world?s population in urban centers with robust public transportation systems and walkable neighborhoods, giving everyone ample access to public resources and jobs. Ideally, this arrangement would free up more land for agriculture and unspoiled wildlife habitats in rural areas. Still, the argument that a city lifestyle could be inherently “greener” than a country lifestyle assumes that the people living outside of the city would be contributing to the sprawl by occupying large plots of land ? but what if former urbanites moving outside cities stuck to more compact residences"
The Beijing and Vienna-based architecture firm Penda argues for a new paradigm for rural living that would make everyone more self-sufficient at an individual level. With “Yin & Yang House,” a proposal for a small town in Germany, the architects suggest that anyone able to work from home should...