Thanks for those interesting examples from Belgium Jez !
...Wayne
> 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/uglybelgian
> houses.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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