Building Density With Rowhouses

The rowhouse, a relatively new building form in the Pacific Northwest, is still evolving as a modern solution for higher density communities.

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March 21, 2001, 7:00 AM PST

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

"Over the years, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, have passed strong growth management laws that have limited new development to compact urban centers and discouraged costly sprawl. These density-prodding measuresalong with hot development markets in the Pacific Northwestproduced a flurry of multifamily building in both cities. In Portland, developers experimented mostly with rowhouse or townhouse development, whereas in Seattle, blockbuster concrete boxes of stacked flats sprang up"

-The full text is available online only to members of the Urban Land Institute, or in print in the March 2001 issue of Urban Land Magazine.

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