Tenement
A block of dwellings usually built to provide high density housing at low cost; generally refers to buildings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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In buildings occupied in separate tenements by more than two families the common staircase shall be ventilated upon each storey above the ground storey by windows or skylights, or otherwise adequately ventilated.
While this "work kitchen" and variants derived from it were a great success for tenement buildings, home owners had different demands and didn't want to be constrained by a 6.4 m² kitchen.
Katra / Chawl - A building so constructed as to be suitable for letting separate tenements each consisting of a single room, or of two rooms but not of more than two rooms, and with common sanitary arrangements.
Double housing represented a step up from the inadequate and "tenement" housing occupied by certain older immigrant groups near the city center, e.g.
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The front features of a portico applied to a wall; also called a blind portico.Tenement(Scots): A purpose-built flatted block.Tenoned purlins ...
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- (platform) broad doorstep, landing on stair, cantilevered stone gallery access to tenement flats.
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Not that all architectural ornament is to be neglected even in the rudest periods; but let our houses first be lined with beauty, where they come in contact with our lives, like the tenement of the shellfish, and not overlaid with it.
 See also: House, Architecture, Brick, Ornament, Frame
  
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