DASHTAK VILLAGE

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Photo by HORIZON, Mashhad - IRAN.

DASHTAK VILLAGE:
A high rate in population growth and poverty forces many farmers to leave home, looking for jobs in around the cities. In most cases buildings are made of mud, and this is why after a few decades they are completely destroyed, in fact they belong to “earthen architecture”.
In the case of Dashtask this happened only 20 years ago and the awful part of the story is that the people who left shared the same fate as the buildings

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