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Back to Back Shopping The Plague of Modern Architecture.
If one is allowed to comment on one's own photograph, I know not how Architects cope with this work, but I know a Man Who Can.
When these houses were formed the street had shops side to side and at the farm end of the High Street, this is a common theme of many river aligned, or dryland (terrace, gravel ridge) sites, some places in wetland already had back to back clusters of shops and some in northern valley were set around farms, or simply constrained by road, track and valley form. In open land now we have back to back everything, in the mode of Bottom and the Mechanicals (Midsummer Night's Dream, Cambridge AmDram, Shakespeare):
"This Saves Walls".
Only being qualified to Advanced Level Mathematics which is mostly Pure, Calculus for Design and Applied, Mechanics for Engineering, I have never managed to work this one out,
Central car parking Statistics we were never very good at in UCW, ask the Professor who had to teach us twice, Precincts and private provisions later built on leaving the shoppers without access and narrow streets have differing kinds of theory to assess their Historic and Functional existence, ask Cambridge.