"almost all of our modern towns and cities are formed out of materials that have been extracted, smelted, superheated or synthesised through the intensive use of fossil energy. Cities are, literally, monuments to extraction and emissions, the focused expressions of mining, burning, melting, sintering and moulding the mineral contents of the Earth"
The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future | Green building | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/27/the-flat-pack-skyscraper-how-wood-can-shape-the-cities-of-the-future
