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Books
Floating Communities
>> HANDMADE HOUSEBOATS: Independent Living Afloat
By: Leonard Henny | 2006/11/06 | Destination:
People seem inexorably drawn to live near water, but rising prices for waterfront land have made that an impossible dream for most. There is an alternative, though. Water-loving people of modest means have lived aboard houseboats for centuries, and why not? Unlike expensive, cramped, and hard-to-build liveaboard cruising boats, spacious, homey houseboats are easily and economically constructed from commmon lumberyard materials.

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>> A Home Afloat: Stories of Living Aboard Vessels of All Shape
By: Leonard Henny | 2006/11/22 | Destination:
Author Gary Cookson interviewed the owners of a variety of floating homes to find out why they chose to live afloat, what decisions they made to achieve their dream and discussed the pros and cons of the liveaboard lifestyle.

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>> The houseboat book by Barbara Flanagan
By: Leonard Henny | 2006/11/06 | Destination:
Presents a pictorial survey, with interior and exterior photographs, of houseboats and floating homes in the United States and Canada, with a brief history and information on what is involved with living on the water.

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>> WATER HOUSE by Christian Burckard Felix Flesche
By: Leonard Henny | 2006/11/06 | Destination:
Explores architectural innovation in aquatic buildings.

This book is the fruit of a long-lasting love of the subject. Both authors have spent many years living by lakes or the sea, in daily contact with the water and the people who venture onto and into it, and who live nearby it.

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>> A STUDY OF A PROTOTYPE FLOATING COMMUNITY
By: Leonard Henny | 2006/11/06 | Destination:
by R. Buckminster Fuller & Triton Foundation

Triton was a concept for an anchored floating city for 100,000 people that would be located just offshore and connected with bridges to the mainland. When President Johnson left office he took the model with him and installed it in his Presidential Library in Texas. This is the complete design report prepared by R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) and his Triton Foundation staff for the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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