I would like all my land to be entirely house, please. It’s not freedom unless I’m squashed in enough that I can reach out my window and touch my neighbour’s balls.
Edit: Jesus Christ guys, I didn’t know we were so pro-McMansion. Look at how much space these houses are wasting that could go into native green space (not lawns, but the actual nature shit we need to not go insane) or community areas. I’m not against high-density living, I’m against waste, and environmental homogeny
The houses themselves look decent, but yeah they’re a bit wasteful of space. The alleys in between each house are weird and lawns shouldn’t exist, but hardly the worst of this style house I’ve seen
Wasteful of space how exactly? They’re crammed in tightly against each other and have tiny lawns. This is in fact a very efficient use of space.
Jesus Christ guys, I didn’t know we were so pro-McMansion.
These are not McMansions.
Look at how much space these houses are wasting
I mean it’s not THEE most efficient use of space, that would be a high rise, but this is still far more efficient than actual McMansions. They don’t have garages, or massive back or front yards. Really the only waste is the alleys between the houses.
but the actual nature shit we need to not go insane) or community areas
There could literally be a park just off screen of this pic. This is one block of houses. This is really what you should be kissed about
Eh…could be worse.
There is no cul-de-sac in sight, and the lawn is much smaller. Plus I’ve lived in a “boonie-city” before that had these and usually more than one family lives in them.
Maybe I’m just too used to comically inefficient suburbia in the middle of nowhere.
Aren’t these just rowhouses with alleys between them?
It’s where the houses are hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder. Your west wall is your neighbor’s east wall. Nothing in-between besides insulation. Often very narrow and deep and has at least 3 storeys.
One advantage of these is that you don’t need a fence for your back yard because your house is the fence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_house#United_States
Identical multifamily housing built wall to wall. Basically the most dense housing you could build at the start of the twentieth century that wasn’t a tinderbox slum. These aren’t built wall to wall because they’re probably in the Midwest. They would’ve been manufactured in the east, packaged onto a rail car and assembled IKEA style in someplace like Cleveland or Milwaukee. This production as repeated by the soviets but for the large housing blocks instead of individual houses.
We should unironically be building more of these in lieu of actual public housing.
These sure don’t look like McMansions. Where are the garages? This can’t be in America. There’s nowhere to park! Three stories? And three chimneys? Porches? This doesn’t add up.
Every house should have its own fenced-in back yard for young fascists to practice marksmanship.
And what’s wrong with high-density housing, anyway? Each house on a half-acre lot…now that’s a waste of land. Each one needs to be mowed and chemically washed and mulched and sodded with new grass every year, a tremendous pollution and ill-used resources.
I did? “Look at how much space these houses are wasting” They’re not wasting space. They are crammed together cheek by jowl. A waste of space is a half acre lot. Plus the houses are three stories, they can’t get much higher without installing an elevator. The front yards are postage stamps and the back yards look to be some kind of shared space.
