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The Hidden Air Pollution in Our Homes. According to the architectural historian David Gissen, debates about the relative dangers of household emissions versus urban emissions, and indoor air versus outdoor air, have swung back and forth between Franklin’s and Adams’s positions ever since, depending on each era’s prevailing beliefs and concerns.

The Hidden Air Pollution in Our Homes

In 1867, inspired by the miasmatic tenements of America’s burgeoning cities, the engineer Lewis W. Leeds delivered a series of lectures under the title “Man’s Own Breath Is His Greatest Enemy.” He warned the unwary that “it is not in the external atmosphere that we must look for the greatest impurities, but it is in our own houses that the blighting, withering curse of foul air is to be found.” Half a century later, by contrast, the modernist architect Le Corbusier saw the indoor environments he designed as beneficent bubbles of man-made weather, shielded from the smog-choked city outside. At the University of Texas at Austin, the UTest House sits in a corner of the J. Shipping - Kwik-Hang Curtain Rod Brackets - Checkout.

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