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One floor of concrete plus five floors of wood is a common pattern, but it isn't necessary. You can easily build a six story building wood frame building. Also
by TheCoelacanth 8y ago
One floor of concrete plus five floors of wood is a common pattern, but it isn't necessary. You can easily build a six story building wood frame building.
Also, a big focus of urbanists is the "missing middle"[1]. This is the idea that there is too much focus on single family houses and high-rises and too little focus on housing that is shorter, but still denser than single family houses.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Middle_Housing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Middle_Housing