Missing Middle 3
villa for 14 people in four families
There are 8 apartments in each villa, ranging in size from 2+k’ette to 4+k’ette.
Chicago Bungalows.
Logan Boulevard Courtyard Apartments.
logan square chicago
Garden City Puchenau, by Roland Rainer
Horseshoe Estate, one of the six Berlin Modernism Housing Estates, by Bruno Taut
ne more measure of authentic urbanism: What proportion of the citizens of a city does a neighborhood serve? On the left, mansions are facing the lake but can’t be fully seen because they are so large, and my drone could fly only so high. There are large houses to the top of the block, with similar-sized houses out of view across the street. The houses on the right side of the block are one- and two-bedroom cottages, with attached townhouses facing onto a green at the bottom of the block. When originally built, there was a range of values of close to 10-to-1 in the houses in this image.
This classic neighborhood center has live-work buildings on three corners and the neighborhood square on the fourth, just out of view to the right. The corner store should be a fundamental part of good urbanism. People fear businesses in neighborhoods, but scale is everything. A Walmart and its parking lot are so large and have such great impacts that they would destroy the neighborhood, but these businesses operate at the craft and artisanal scales and succ
a set of 4 housing units of 130 m2 on a corner lot of 420 m2
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