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Greensburg, KS: Creative Destruction and Idealized Design

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Starting this evening, the Discovery Channel’s new network, Planet Green, will be broadcasting the remarkable story of Greensburg Kansas [wiki] as a 13-part documentary.

The town of Greensburg was destroyed (0nly 5% of the structures remained, with 11 of the towns 1500 citizens killed) by an F5 tornado, captured in this YouTube video:

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Ariel photographs displayed on Kansas.com portray the near-total destruction. Geotagged Flickr photos can be found here.

Greensburg City Council subsequently passed a resolution requiring that all new buildings were to be built to LEED certification, making the city the first to do so.

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