I find the "lefty" bit a bit bizarre. Things that bad in the US that every topic is a battleground between left and right?
I've lived in a terraced house before - biggest problem is noise transmission. It's just not pleasant living without quiet and privacy.
Walkability depends more on the neighbourhood design than the individual houses. Terraced houses can be in ealkabale neighbourhoods but they can also be in urban car focused hell holes.
Row houses can work if they're properly noise insulated, but generally (and historically) they're not and instead reflect the priorities of the developers to cram as many homes into as small a space as possible.
It comes down to regulation and planning rules. If you're willing to force new terraced homes are well built then yes they can be part of options, just like flats/apartments.
And since the building is owned by a real estate mogul, the rent is ever-increasing, denying any opportunity for normal folks to free themselves of rent, as well as the opportunity to build generational wealth.
Show me a community that itself owns the building, and isn't full of people sick to death of their condo association or HOA. Until then, it solves one problem by amplifying another. :(
What is it with their obsession with trying to use shipping containers as houses.
Why do none of them realize that something that was designed to the bare minimum standard of not destroying products would be a good thing to live in.
There like, actual materials designed to be used to build homes, maybe fucking try using some of them instead of trying to recreate what was supposed to be a crazy dystopian example of housing.
This is like the dumbasses that keep reinventing a train.
Take a shipping container, but you have to ventilate it and have heating and cooling.
Oh and you’re going to have to have some kind of plumbing sos you’ll need some internal walls and some penetrations
Wow I just had a great idea you could actually put some wheels on it and you could easily move it to any available lot.
I used to love the idea of living in a container house for the price and the ecological impact of it, but after some research I found out that to make them livable they had to be modified so much that are just as “bad” as a normal house.
why self balancing?? lmao just make a tiny autonomous rail car that uses both rails. This is dumb. Though I will say sparsely used/rural lines are probably the least bad place to try on-demand type systems, since even if they succeed wildly they can’t be a victim of their own success since there’s only a small manageable population to pull riders from.
Wood panelling (but more Victorian era than this) and also windows that can be opened (just put grated wire over them if your worried about some moron sticking their head out). They should bring back big in carriage ceiling fans too, blew my mind when I saw subway trains used to have those
Very cool, kinda looks like the EUR district in Rome, highrises and big apartments next to lots of green(although better, if nothing because it has been built by socialists and not by funny upside down bald man)
Imagine being a boot for capitalism and still getting fucked by it. Skill issue, wouldn’t be me. I’ll be stealing everything that isn’t nailed down and taking 30 minute bathroom breaks at my job instead.
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