{"id":142378,"date":"2022-07-17T05:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T10:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-sustainable-cities-made-from-mud"},"modified":"2022-07-17T05:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T10:02:36","slug":"the-sustainable-cities-made-from-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-sustainable-cities-made-from-mud","title":{"rendered":"The sustainable cities made from mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-sustainable-cities-made-from-mud.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earthen architecture can withstand extreme events such as earthquakes and heavy winds \u201cbecause of the ability of its structure to distribute the load that it faces on its surface, unlike concrete or cement,\u201d says Damluji.<\/p>\n<p>But mud building\u2019s resilience to earthquakes depends on the intensity of the seismic waves and the soil in which they are built, says Jerome.<\/p>\n<p>Mud buildings are \u201calso protected from seasonal rains and flash floods due to the damp-proof and protective external rendering used in several layers of refined mud, ash and lime coating and plaster\u201d, says Damluji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earthen architecture can withstand extreme events such as earthquakes and heavy winds \u201cbecause of the ability of its structure to distribute the load that it faces on its surface, unlike concrete or cement,\u201d says Damluji. But mud building\u2019s resilience to earthquakes depends on the intensity of the seismic waves and the soil in which they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}