How is the growth of cities visible in the street views?

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Almost every person in the world wants the own house and lot, but in city areas they are expensive. The taxes of lot are high, and the persons who rule the city wants that there would be live as many people as possible in some area.  Growing and improve the cities happens the way, that if the most people like it, would that thing put in the action. Sometimes there have been claiming, that cars dominate the plans, how the living would be developed.


City areas are growing all the time, and that causes very interesting thing in the ordinary street view. The picture above shows, that there was been cheap land somewhere in the past. And in that time the green painted house has been built. The work was cheap and the even ordinary worker could buy that kind of house in the past. But then there was the phenomenon when the price of the land was rising, and that was the reason, why the new buildings were different.


This green painted house has been somehow the attractive point of the city image, but this kind of unique buildings must step away from new architecture. And this is quite a sad thing because we all want to live in the unique house. But of course, the identical shape of the buildings increase safety and it's more practical to build than a unique building. Making groups is cheaper and more effective as financial and productive than making unique buildings.


The reason, why those old houses have been left in that area could be that they were not owned by private persons. The rising taxes and other payment guaranteed, that the normal worker would sell that property, and there would move directors of the firms. But if some company would own that house and the lot, would that guaranteed, that there was money to pay those payments. And if there were some big organization behind those payments, that would be the reason, why this green painted house has been left in this quite expensive area.