argumate:

argumate:

the archetypal house in the Melbourne inner city is a classic Victorian design, approximately fifty metres long and one metre wide and primarily consisting of corridor; it has no windows and no light and I don’t know what the fuck those people were thinking.

trivialagent said: I know old Dutch city houses have this design because you got taxed based on how wide your house was, maybe something like that?

those Dutch houses are basically the same except vertical instead of horizontal, so they’re 50% stairs plus that nifty crane hook thing at the top for getting furniture up.

fix your aspect ratios, people!

You know what they say about real estate: location, location, location. You pay for location. And in an old on-foot city, that meant distance from your front door to things on the street. You are, basically, paying for horizontal displacement, which means that houses are designed to minimize it vs. square footage.