For example, the government has many requirements for the energy efficiency of new buildings, something smaller landlords have a harder time coping with.
First was an uproar over an architect who faked earthquake-resistance data for new condominium buildings—something he would not have been able to do before inspection standards were changed in the late 1990s.
What they and lots of other Londoners deplore is the blight of neo-Georgianism that lies drearily on many of London's new buildings Something most Londoners are proud of are the London County Council's own housing projects, as for example, the Roehampton Estate.
People even greet one another on the wide pathways between buildings, something most likely rare to both Ms. Kurtz and Mr. FitzPatrck as they grew up elsewhere in Manhattan".It's a community feeling that I feel like you don't get in other neighborhoods," said Mr. FitzPatrick, 34, a lawyer.
Newman, like Jane Jacobs before him in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), argued that urban violence can be mitigated by designs and layouts that exploit the natural surveillance of open spaces inside and outside buildings, something that high-rise buildings notably lack.
Sunlight plays an important role in the environmental behavior of buildings, something which is usually taken into account when considering their lighting and heating contributions.
