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McMansion is a pejorative term for a large house in a suburban community, typically marketed to the upper middle class in developed countries. Architectural historian Virginia Savage McAlester , who gave a first description of the common features which define this building style, coined the more neutral term Millennium Mansion . [ 1 ]
A tract housing development in San Jose, California. Tract housing came about in the 1940s when the demand for cheap housing skyrocketed. Economies of scale meant that large numbers of identical houses could be built in a "cookie cutter" fashion faster and more cheaply to fulfill the growing demand.
The map poses as a small tribute made in honor of the creator's deceased friend, claiming that the house is a recreation of a real suburban house. It draws inspiration from House of Leaves and later reveals itself to be a liminal horror game as the player discovers more areas of the house.
A cottage is a small house, usually one or two stories in height, although the term is sometimes applied to larger structures. Cape Cod-style house or Cape: a style of a double-pile one-story cottage; low, broad with a steep side-gable roof to which dormers are often added to create a second story (in some locations, referred to as 1.5-story)
The New England Study of Suburban Youth found that the upper middle class suburban cohorts displayed an increased drug use when compared to the natural average. [ 22 ] The shift in demographics and economic statuses related to suburbanization has increased the risk of drug abuse in affluent American communities and changed the approach to drug ...
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In New Zealand, "villa" refers almost exclusively to Victorian and Edwardian wooden weatherboard houses mainly built between 1880 and 1914, characterised by high ceilings (often 3.7 m or 12 ft), sash windows, and a long entrance hall. [16] [17] In South Korea, the term "villa" refers to small multi-household house with 4 floors or less. [18]
Suburban culture (1 C, 3 P) S. Segregation (10 C, 47 P) Streetcar suburbs (2 C, 148 P) W. Works about suburbs (22 P) Pages in category "Suburbs" ... Snout house ...