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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Suburban Contrast
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 13:21:26 +0100
They're frequently built like that in Belgium.

Here's an example:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Belgian-Houses-(part-II)/3640357

If you're lucky the next houses will be high quality and you end up with a
street like this: (after some time)
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/029/cache/belgium_2953_600x450.jpg

If you're less lucky you get this:
http://www.thelmagazine.com/binary/ad60/1311085196-uglybelgianhouses1.jpg

Or anything might happen:
http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/08/Cheval-Noir-Lescaut-Gigogne-11-537x358.jpg
or this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IANKlqCiQ9M/UIvQ06gM2JI/AAAAAAAAFJI/AYxd7o7aAko/s1600/uglybelgianhouses.jpeg


On 13 May 2014 12:33, Wayne Harridge <wayne.harridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Interesting, perhaps the idea is to fill in the space between the houses
> when vacant land gets scarce.
>
> ...Wayne
>
>
> >
> > The outskirts of Siagon go on for miles and miles and you don't think you
> will
> > ever get out of the city.  Then you get to the new suburbs where many
> > housing developments are springing up around the existing shacks.  The
> new
> > houses, even though they are surrounded by lots of empty land, are all 4
> > stories tall and one room wide, with no windows on the sides.  The
> > explanation was that that was the way townhouses were in the city,
> > connected to each other, so the new subdivisions were built the same way
> > but with free-standing houses.  Looks kind of strange to me!
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/image/155627252
> >
> > C&C greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Tina
> >
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