alt Hacker NewsGuess they forgot why Sweden stopped building cities in wood in the first place…
But hey, it is cheap!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fires_of_Stockhol...
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jodleif • 01/22/2025
It’s not cheap. I think it’s mainly a sustainability and prestige thing.
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I read an Astrid Lindgren children's book which had one of the characters die while saving his brother from a fire that burned part of the (Swedish) city.