The semi-detached house : the suburban style

Overview

A case could be made for the argument that in the English suburbs, land developers and speculative builders—by wanting to build individualistic houses in vernacular styles away from the city—predicted the formulation of the garden cities. In television broadcast 23, Stephen Bayley suggests that the accumulation of different pressures combined to produce a form of housing and community planning that was, like the Roman idea of rus in urbe, an ideal of sorts.

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