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> Another nice trend is street level shops and restaurants mixed with housing above FYI this is how most non-american towns and cities have been designed for …
by Swizec 3y ago
> Another nice trend is street level shops and restaurants mixed with housing above
FYI this is how most non-american towns and cities have been designed for … ever? Go into any European old town center and it’s full of street level shops with residential on the floors above. Judging from popular photos, much of Asia and Africa are like this as well.
- osigurdson 3y agoI think detached houses with yards are better.
- Swizec 3y agoNah detached houses with yards are the worst of both worlds. You get neither the easily accessible town/city experience nor enough land to do anything interesting with. But I’m probably biased because I grew up in a city and regularly visited grandparents with legit farms. If you’re gonna have land, it should support at least a decent-sized garden … maybe a few fruit trees, nice shed, couple chickens. You definitely don’t want a yard that’s spitting distance to your neighbors’ house, that’s just silly.
- osigurdson 3y agoAcreages are better still, I agree.
- balfirevic 3y ago> You definitely don’t want a yard that’s spitting distance to your neighbors’ house, that’s just silly. I don't care about having land (nor yard - I especially don't want to take care of one), but detached house is the only way to have loud and/or space intensive hobbies (playing music with drums, karaoke, machine shop). Invent magic sound-isolating material and I'd prefer large flats in buildings, for easy access to everything.
- Swizec 3y agoModern buildings can be surprisingly sound proof. I’ve seen apartments where you close the window overlooking a busy street at rush hour and it’s complete silence inside. And I’ve lived in detached suburban houses where you can hear your neighbors sneeze.
- balfirevic 3y ago> I’ve seen apartments where you close the window overlooking a busy street at rush hour and it’s complete silence inside. That seems much easier than the examples I mentioned. I would like you to be right though, and if you are - that it was more common. > And I’ve lived in detached suburban houses where you can hear your neighbors sneeze. True, but at least you have some control over soundproofing if you own the entire thing and if that's something you care about.
- osigurdson 3y agoSo we are comparing modern sound proofed multi-tenant buildings to non-modern, non-soundproofed suburban houses? Or are you saying that a suburban house cannot be built with sound proofing?
- Swizec 3y agoI’m saying it is not a given that apartments are noisy and it’s not a given that houses are quiet. As you say, it depends on soundproofing not on the form of housing.