Using wood scraps, license plates and more, one builder is turning trash heaps into homes.

用木条、汽车牌照或是更多的材料，一个建造者可以将垃圾堆变成一个一个的房屋。

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At one time, every town in the country had at least one frame builder, but the craft largely disappeared over the past couple of decades as cheap, mass produced bikes were imported from Asia.

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The radical minimalism of these machines, built mostly in Europe in the 1950s and early '60s, reflected the region's postwar scarcity. (One resourceful builder beat old cooking pots into fender panels.) They typically measure 10 feet long or less, with less than 700-cc engine displacement and one or two seats arranged side by side or in tandem, scooter style.

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One recent example is Chinese property builder Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd.

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