Winter Issue 2022 - 85

proactive
solution file
WILLIAM P. MACHT
Thin Micro-Townhouses Optimize Density
A Utah developer includes
12-foot-wide (3.7 m)
townhouses to densify a
two-acre (0.8 ha) block in
the downtown of a new
community southwest of Salt
Lake City.
With the post-pandemic
surge in demand for more affordable,
socially distant single-family
living, free of communal indoor
spaces such as lobbies, hallways,
and elevators, developers are turning
to more economic variations
of the classic urban townhouse,
the quintessential form of single-family-attached
housing. Unlike
condominiums, they also permit
market-attractive, fee-simple landownership.
Townhouses
already economize
the use of expensive urban land,
so it follows that the narrower the
dwelling, the more economic it is.
In fact, scale and dimensions are
critical. Even in larger cities, the
width of townhouses traditionally
varies from about 15 to 25 feet (4.6
to 7.6 m). For example, the average
width of a townhome in New York
City is 18 to 20 feet (5.5 to 6 m)
while Washington, D.C.-area townhouses
average 16 to 18 feet (4.9
to 6 m) wide.
Narrower townhouses exist but
are unusual. A 19th-century 10-footwide
(3 m) townhouse located at
44 Hull Street in Boston-reported
to be the city' thinnest-was
recently listed at $1.2 million.
Another, at 523 Queen Street in
Alexandria, Virginia, is even thinner,
measuring only seven feet
(2.1 m) wide. In the 20th and 21st
centuries, townhouses as narrow
as 12 feet (3.7 m) engender special
news articles.
Narrow micro-townhouse exteriors
were designed to appear as larger
buildings with smaller-scale
elements such as trellis-covered roof
terraces, projected bay windows,
porches, and stoops.
WINTER 2022
URBAN LAND
83
UDA

Winter Issue 2022

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Winter Issue 2022

Winter Issue 2022 - 1
Winter Issue 2022 - 2
Winter Issue 2022 - 3
Winter Issue 2022 - 4
Winter Issue 2022 - 5
Winter Issue 2022 - 6
Winter Issue 2022 - 7
Winter Issue 2022 - 8
Winter Issue 2022 - 9
Winter Issue 2022 - 10
Winter Issue 2022 - 11
Winter Issue 2022 - 12
Winter Issue 2022 - 13
Winter Issue 2022 - 14
Winter Issue 2022 - 15
Winter Issue 2022 - 16
Winter Issue 2022 - 17
Winter Issue 2022 - 18
Winter Issue 2022 - 19
Winter Issue 2022 - 20
Winter Issue 2022 - 21
Winter Issue 2022 - 22
Winter Issue 2022 - 23
Winter Issue 2022 - 24
Winter Issue 2022 - 25
Winter Issue 2022 - 26
Winter Issue 2022 - 27
Winter Issue 2022 - 28
Winter Issue 2022 - 29
Winter Issue 2022 - 30
Winter Issue 2022 - 31
Winter Issue 2022 - 32
Winter Issue 2022 - 33
Winter Issue 2022 - 34
Winter Issue 2022 - 35
Winter Issue 2022 - 36
Winter Issue 2022 - 37
Winter Issue 2022 - 38
Winter Issue 2022 - 39
Winter Issue 2022 - 40
Winter Issue 2022 - 41
Winter Issue 2022 - 42
Winter Issue 2022 - 43
Winter Issue 2022 - 44
Winter Issue 2022 - 45
Winter Issue 2022 - 46
Winter Issue 2022 - 47
Winter Issue 2022 - 48
Winter Issue 2022 - 49
Winter Issue 2022 - 50
Winter Issue 2022 - 51
Winter Issue 2022 - 52
Winter Issue 2022 - 53
Winter Issue 2022 - 54
Winter Issue 2022 - 55
Winter Issue 2022 - 56
Winter Issue 2022 - 57
Winter Issue 2022 - 58
Winter Issue 2022 - 59
Winter Issue 2022 - 60
Winter Issue 2022 - 61
Winter Issue 2022 - 62
Winter Issue 2022 - 63
Winter Issue 2022 - 64
Winter Issue 2022 - 65
Winter Issue 2022 - 66
Winter Issue 2022 - 67
Winter Issue 2022 - 68
Winter Issue 2022 - 69
Winter Issue 2022 - 70
Winter Issue 2022 - 71
Winter Issue 2022 - 72
Winter Issue 2022 - 73
Winter Issue 2022 - 74
Winter Issue 2022 - 75
Winter Issue 2022 - 76
Winter Issue 2022 - 77
Winter Issue 2022 - 78
Winter Issue 2022 - 79
Winter Issue 2022 - 80
Winter Issue 2022 - 81
Winter Issue 2022 - 82
Winter Issue 2022 - 83
Winter Issue 2022 - 84
Winter Issue 2022 - 85
Winter Issue 2022 - 86
Winter Issue 2022 - 87
Winter Issue 2022 - 88
Winter Issue 2022 - 89
Winter Issue 2022 - 90
Winter Issue 2022 - 91
Winter Issue 2022 - 92
Winter Issue 2022 - 93
Winter Issue 2022 - 94
Winter Issue 2022 - 95
Winter Issue 2022 - 96
Winter Issue 2022 - 97
Winter Issue 2022 - 98
Winter Issue 2022 - 99
Winter Issue 2022 - 100
Winter Issue 2022 - 101
Winter Issue 2022 - 102
Winter Issue 2022 - 103
Winter Issue 2022 - 104
Winter Issue 2022 - 105
Winter Issue 2022 - 106
Winter Issue 2022 - 107
Winter Issue 2022 - 108
Winter Issue 2022 - 109
Winter Issue 2022 - 110
Winter Issue 2022 - 111
Winter Issue 2022 - 112
Winter Issue 2022 - 113
Winter Issue 2022 - 114
Winter Issue 2022 - 115
Winter Issue 2022 - 116
Winter Issue 2022 - 117
Winter Issue 2022 - 118
Winter Issue 2022 - 119
Winter Issue 2022 - 120
Winter Issue 2022 - 121
Winter Issue 2022 - 122
Winter Issue 2022 - 123
Winter Issue 2022 - 124
Winter Issue 2022 - 125
Winter Issue 2022 - 126
Winter Issue 2022 - 127
Winter Issue 2022 - 128
Winter Issue 2022 - 129
Winter Issue 2022 - 130
Winter Issue 2022 - 131
Winter Issue 2022 - 132
Winter Issue 2022 - 133
Winter Issue 2022 - 134
Winter Issue 2022 - 135
Winter Issue 2022 - 136
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2024-fall-issue-of-urban-land
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2024-spring-issue-of-urban-land
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2024-winter-issue-of-urban-land
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2023-fall-issue-of-urban-land
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2023-summer-issue-of-urban-land
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2023-spring-issue
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2022-winter-issue
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2022FallIssue
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2022-summer-issue
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/2022-spring-issue
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/ulm-winter-2022
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/summer-issue-2021
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/uli-spring-2021-issue
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/ULIWinter2021
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/URBANLANDFALL2020
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/URBANLANDSUMMER2020
https://www.nxtbook.com/urbanlandinstitute/UrbanLand/URBANLANDSPRING2020
https://www.nxtbookmedia.com