Les haies maisons voitures en stationnement trottoirs et l'éclairage des ombres du soir long et lueur rouge contre le travail de la brique rouge-orange.
5477 x 3651 px | 46,4 x 30,9 cm | 18,3 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
7 novembre 2015
Lieu:
Lincolnshire U.K.
Informations supplémentaires:
Semi-detached housing, where two homes are separated by one wall, typical Britain's middle-class suburbs. Most popular in the 20th century, this type of housing is known simply as a "semi" provided an escape from dirty cities and their crowded apartments, yet were dense enough to still be affordable. Approximately 3 million semis were built in the U.K. between World Wars I and II. However, while the impact of the First World War and the fear of a Bolshevik revolution spurred a house-building boom with the first wave of suburban working-class homes – the `homes for heroes’ council estates – the builders, property developers and financial lenders needed to find ways to create a demand for home ownership. A concerted marketing initiative was thus launched to change opinions and make ownership not only more widely possible, but desirable. But despite the general popularity of inter-war suburban living, a misguided shift in the 1950s towards inner-city high-rise blocks proved to be a disastrous social experiment. The fact that so many 30s-built homes have outlasted their 50s megaliths and are still occupied today suggests that, in spite of the downsides, the inter-war semi contributed towards a 50% increase in the housing stock, and is still prized by many as the ideal home.
