
Beverly Hills, California, 1922
by Stefanos Polyzoides (2016)
The bulk of all housing built in the U.S. in the last two generations has been either stacked flats or single family detached houses. In our time, these have been the key ingredients of both suburban sprawl and incompatible urban form. There is a rich array of other, historic American urban housing types that over the centuries have generated every urban environment of note in our country. These same types can now be used singly or in combinations to build the kinds of distinguished urban places that our diverse society needs in order to grow and to prosper.
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Beverly Hills, California, 1922
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