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A terrace, terraced house , or townhouse [a] is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. In the United States and Canada these are sometimes known as row houses or row homes.
Townhouse, terraced house, or rowhouse: common terms for single-family attached housing, whose precise meaning varies by location, often connecting a series of living units arranged side-by-side sharing common walls (not to be confused with the English term for an aristocratic mansion, townhouse (Great Britain))
A nagaya was a long housing complex under the same ridge, one or two stories high, divided into small compartments for rent. The well, toilet and waste facilities were shared. Except for a bedroom, each household only had a kitchen. [1] Historically, similar houses were built around a rich manor or castle for low-ranking samurai.
Prominent examples in Hong Kong include Severn 8, in which a 5,067-square-foot (470.7 m 2) townhouse sold for HK$285 million (US$37 million) in 2008, or HK$57,000 (US$7,400) per square foot, a record in Asia, and The Beverly Hills, which consists of multiple rows of townhouses with some units as large as 11,000 square feet (1,000 m 2). Commonly ...
In the U.S. most medium-density or middle-sized housing was built between the 1870s and 1940s [10] due to the need to provide denser housing near jobs. Examples include the streetcar suburbs of Boston which included more two-family and triple-decker homes than single-family homes, [10] or areas like Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington D.C. or Philadelphia [10] which feature an abundance of row-houses.
[2] The second floor has a similar layout to the first. A small room is at the front end of the hallway above the entrance. The bedrooms have their original wooden trim, but no mantelpieces. On either side of the chimney breast in the rear are small closets. [2] A secondary hall corresponding to the roof ridge divides the two sections of the ...
A storey plan (the red floor would be the 5th in North American convention, or 4th in the European convention) A storey (Commonwealth English) [1] or story (American English; see spelling differences), [2] is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.).
There were six transitional housing programs created under the Wu administration in Boston in January 2022. Mayor Michelle Wu's administration cleared a tent encampment of several hundred people living in the area known locally as the Mass and Cass (also known as "Methadone Mile"), and created six low-threshold, transitional housing sites to divert people displaced from the encampment.