Tuesday, November 11, 2003
"Teardown houses"
One striking feauture of American (as well as British) neighbourhoods is the striking uniformity among the houses. If you peep out of the window when your flight is taking-off or when it is landing, then the sight of the uniform houses across neighbourhoods is really striking. What a contrast to a view of Indian landscape, where you will see a slums and high-rises living together.
One increasingly common phenomenon in the suburb I live in is what is called as "Teardown houses". It is a single big luxuriuos house built by pulling down two smaller houses. These houses destroy the beauty of the colonies and also tranquility in the neighbourhood. This is becoming more and more common here and is now prompting the authorities to come up with regulations for buildings. Guess they can do with some KT from B'lore City Corporation! Here an FSI of 1.45 is laid down. However, again, there are real estate sharks who would make more money by building luxuriuos houses. It would interesting to see who wins the battle!
One striking feauture of American (as well as British) neighbourhoods is the striking uniformity among the houses. If you peep out of the window when your flight is taking-off or when it is landing, then the sight of the uniform houses across neighbourhoods is really striking. What a contrast to a view of Indian landscape, where you will see a slums and high-rises living together.
One increasingly common phenomenon in the suburb I live in is what is called as "Teardown houses". It is a single big luxuriuos house built by pulling down two smaller houses. These houses destroy the beauty of the colonies and also tranquility in the neighbourhood. This is becoming more and more common here and is now prompting the authorities to come up with regulations for buildings. Guess they can do with some KT from B'lore City Corporation! Here an FSI of 1.45 is laid down. However, again, there are real estate sharks who would make more money by building luxuriuos houses. It would interesting to see who wins the battle!
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