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I don't how or why you would consider row after row of red brick houses to be suburbanish. That certainly isn't the case here. And yes the big diff between suburbia and urban areas is housing density, and not the lack of commercial buildings. I think in your country and a lot of Europe you have many more high rise apartment buildings. In the US that is only NYC for the most part.
Maybe Finland is different. The one street you viewed there is a residential neighborhood, a very dense hood by American standards. The other is our Chinatown in the central city district. The only place you see that kind of dense commerical and residential development is near the city center. Once away from that it is all row houses. Most Americans would prefer a row home over an apartment or condo.
Yes, it's maybe differences in architecture and culture. Our inner cities are mostly houses with buildings 6 to 10 stories tall, not always neatly in dense rows, but still dominate the landscape and building style.
We don't have that rowhouse culture hardly at all, so that might be the reason why I associate them with the suburbs. I was just surprised by the scale of those neighborhoods, it wasn't meant as any kind of insult.
Yes, it's maybe differences in architecture and culture. Our inner cities are mostly houses with buildings 6 to 10 stories tall, not always neatly in dense rows, but still dominate the landscape and building style.
We don't have that rowhouse culture hardly at all, so that might be the reason why I associate them with the suburbs. I was just surprised by the scale of those neighborhoods, it wasn't meant as any kind of insult.
It looks like in Finland (and most of Scandinavia) you get apartment blocks or detached/semi-detached homes. In between is just apartment blocks with more space in between. Is something like this what you expected?
It looks like in Finland (and most of Scandinavia) you get apartment blocks or detached/semi-detached homes. In between is just apartment blocks with more space in between. Is something like this what you expected?
Yes, exactly, I expected more of that, and those have a more 'city feel'.
Yes, we have much blocks or semi detached houses for 2-4 families. Land, construction and maintenance is expensive, and building restrictions strict. And zoning is very rigid, and also often very old, sometimes all the way to the 19th century.
None of these are considered poor neighborhoods, even if some of them aren't aesthetically very appealing. Inside these are often very spacy, well equipped and very well maintained.
Sorry, many links, but good to be clear and give an in-depth explanation. All the the cities are dominated by those higher buildings, and the lowrises mostly in suburbs.
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The apartment complexes you see in Finland are pretty unusual here, except for social housing.
And one thing you have to remind is that there's over 1,000,000 summer cottages and 5,500,000 people in this country, so many peoples (especially a bit poorer) gardening, BBQ and own lawn -needs are fulfilled by driving to the cottage during the weekends and holidays.
Most people certainly wouldn't associate those with Russia. Then again being at the extreme southern tip on the Black Sea near Georgia, it's not a common scene.
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