Semi-detached house

…Housing construction, which was initially planned as a purely commercial enterprise, soon proved unprofitable, and was carried out as a charitable project by non-profit foundations such as the Peabody Trust, and was eventually taken over by public housing projects run by local governments and other organizations. Many of the middle-class homes were built in residential areas known as "Garden Suburbs," and many of them were semi-detached houses, two houses in one building. Garden suburban residential areas were commuter towns (residential cities) that took landscape planning into account, and the first of these was Bedford Park, built in the west suburbs of London in the late 1870s. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "semi-detached house" is listed below.

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…当初は純営利事業として計画された住宅建設は，やがて利潤が上がらぬことが判明し，ピーボディ･トラストPeabody Trustに代表される非営利財団の慈善事業として進められ，最終的には自治体等の公営住宅事業に受け継がれてゆく。中産階級の住宅は〈田園郊外Garden Suburb〉と呼ばれる住宅地に多く建設され，2戸で一つの建物となっている住宅(セミ･ディタッチト･ハウスsemi‐detached house)が多く建設される。田園郊外の住宅地は風致計画を加味したベッドタウン(住宅都市)であり，1870年代後半にロンドン西郊に建設されたベドフォード･パークBedford Parkがその嚆矢（こうし）である。…

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