I lived for many years in Manhattan in a three-story building with two residential units over one of commercial. It has shared walls on either side and windows only in the front/back. These were the workhouse housing units of their era, and they dominated all major cities at end of the 19th and early 20th century. They all looked the same, too!
And in my old neighborhood, zoning allows for lot consolidation and then building upwards, so where I used to live has not lost many of these having them replaced with 20 floors of residential over 1 (sometimes 2) of commercial. Guess what? That works, too!
This gives me the same feels as whenever I hear someone stand up in a meeting and demand shadow studies. Really? The shadows at noon on December 21st. should stop people from being able to afford to live? "Neighborhood character" is the left-coded "I got mine!"
I lived for many years in Manhattan in a three-story building with two residential units over one of commercial. It has shared walls on either side and windows only in the front/back. These were the workhouse housing units of their era, and they dominated all major cities at end of the 19th and early 20th century. They all looked the same, too!
And in my old neighborhood, zoning allows for lot consolidation and then building upwards, so where I used to live has not lost many of these having them replaced with 20 floors of residential over 1 (sometimes 2) of commercial. Guess what? That works, too!
This gives me the same feels as whenever I hear someone stand up in a meeting and demand shadow studies. Really? The shadows at noon on December 21st. should stop people from being able to afford to live? "Neighborhood character" is the left-coded "I got mine!"