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Re: MOC: Terraced houses
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Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:58:27 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Alastair Disley wrote:
> Jonathan Lopes wrote:
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> > Thanks very much for doing this and following up, Tim. I was hoping you would.
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> > It is nice to see the different types of housing from different countries.
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> > Question(s): Would these types of houses comprise an area or neighborhood? Are
> > there little pockets of many of them here and there or are these types of
> > houses spread out amongst other types of houses? Do families live there and if
> > so do the streets get crowded with kids playing and what-not? Or, is it a
> > different environment?
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> > Jonathan
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> This might give you some idea:
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> http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=53.23671~-1.442817&style=a&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000
The link actually gives me a blank page of sorts. . .
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> There are typically a few blocks of these houses together, but
> occasionally you will find isolated rows, sometimes even outside of
> built up areas. Some towns and cities seem to be largely made up of
> these. They are generally the cheapest form of housing other than
> flats/apartments. Families do live there if there they cannot afford
> better, but more usually it is couples and extended families who live there.
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> The streets are not usually crowded with kids as most households have at
> least one car and the car is often longer than the house is wide, so
> there is not much room left for cars to drive through let alone kids to
> play safely in. I know one terraced street where the road is just over
> one car width, plus a pavement (sidewalk) on one side even narrower.
> For some reason the cars park on the road, but when they want to get out
> they drive half on the pavement.
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> These areas tend to be rougher, so perhaps not the places you would want
> kids playing out in. Besides, most British kids are more likely to be
> found in front of a games console or watching TV these days. Those
> photographs make them appear really depressing places to live, but I've
> happily lived in several over the years. They may be small, but they
> have tall windows which let in plenty of light in comparison with modern
> houses, and the ceilings are typically 9 feet or so which makes them
> feel bigger (typical modern house 7.5 feet).
Thanks for the description. Very helpful. The pictures don't look all that rough or depressing to me, but then again I'm quite badass myself. ;o) I figured even rough areas have kids that need to run around. Here in NYC there are rough areas but still plenty of kids doing what kids do, playing in fire hydrants, basketball, rolling around on their scooters, etc. Being kids. The streets where you are seem narrower by description though.
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> They can also be very imaginatively updated as a private yet high
> density option for city living, see for example
> http://www.chimneypotpark.co.uk/
That actually looks really nice.
Thanks again, Al.
Jonathan
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| (...) Actually, without wishing to classist, it is the poorer area where kids can still be found playing on the street, middle class parents taxi their kids around from one safe environment to another. This is a recent thing, when I was young (I'm (...) (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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