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  • Wyoming Town - Population 1 - Sells for $900,000

    • 8 Apr 2012
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    "The town of Buford, Wyoming – population 1 – was sold for $900,000 to an unidentified buyer from Vietnam on Thursday, April 5th, after an 11-minute Internet auction that attracted worldwide interest. The tiny Western town garnered online viewers and bidders from 46 countries for the sale of 10-plus acres with a convenience store, gas station and modular home located in southeastern Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie. The buyer, who wished to remain anonymous, flew to Wyoming from Vietnam for a purchase he likened to “the American dream,” according to a statement released by Williams & Williams, the Oklahoma auction house handling the sale."
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  • Ekinoid Project : Global Frontier Towns for All Environments, All People.

    • 19 Jan 2012
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    Self-assembly off-the-grid towns

    "To hope to address the emerging, gigantic problems of the 21st century we need bold, gigantic-yet-simple solutions. A likely reality is a population increase to around nine billion people; and committing to new population centres - in ways that are supportable and highly efficient - will be crucial.

    Imagine self-assembling a sustainable, off-the-grid town for 10,000 people - in six months. And then doing that in 10,000 places previously considered uninhabitable ..."

    via ekinoid.com

     

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  • Most Colorful Towns

    • 1 Dec 2011
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    Riomaggiore, Italy

    "The eye often wearies of red brick, gray steel and beige stone. For this, the solution is house paint. When an entire neighborhood assumes the colors of the rainbow, even the front gardens pale in comparison. Throughout the world, there are ten particularly stunning towns that resemble freshly opened packages of crayons – offering a respite from our dismal urban surroundings and reminding us that our personal environments need not be so bland."

    see more via environmentalgraffiti.com

     

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