Affordable Cities Of The Future

A retiring University of Hawaii professor has developed a low-cost building type that is revolutionizing development in third-world cities.

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January 15, 2002, 5:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Etherington brought the challenge back to UH, where he and his students came up with the idea of a mortar-less, interlocking concrete block system that the residents could use to build their own homes at a price far below any other method... "Today it's the pre-eminent method of rural housing in Asia," Etherington said. "Basically, we gave them the system to use and the people took the design and ran with it."

Thanks to Chris Steins

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