The oil crisis of the 1970s meant that Americans had to wait in long lines to fill up their cars. But in the Netherlands, the government decided that the best way to conserve fuel was to ban cars for one day a week. How did people cope? They took their…
Historian John Curren believes he has found the one and only inspiration for the yellow brick road in L. Frank Baum’s popular children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Now mostly gone, the road leads to a parking lot in the small town of Peekskill, NY
Since Holland is mostly under sea level, keeping houses from flooding is a constant problem. This concept fixes that problem by just having an apartment complex that floats.