Multi-family housing is derived from the porch; re-scaled as infrastructure where the porch is the generator of urbanism organizing buildings and landscapes.
Rather than simply see the porch as an element superadded to a house, it is more useful to consider its liminality and mutability in grasping the porch’s true transformative agency. A “floating signifier” that absorbs more meaning than it emits, the porch intertwined new combinations of home and economy, not unlike the American urban grid.
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The pocket neighborhood is a new real estate product for middle America substituting shared neighborhood greens for front yards and car parking in garages at the front of the house.
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