Re:Why America's New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same
by wenc on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:25PM
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The article says the method traces to 1830s Chicago, but interestingly modern day Chicago doesn't look like that.
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Re:Why America's New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same
by 8bitsrule on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:10PM
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Farther down, it mentions that the 1871 Chicago Fire resulted in a wood-construction ban "still partly in place".
Britannica notes that "The [1871] slums became kindling for the downtown conflagration, where even the supposedly fireproof stone and brick buildings exploded in flames as the destruction swept northward."