Dick Bird's telegraph pole strewn shanty town is arresting to the eye, too, not least when the claustrophobic clusters of wharf-side dwellings part to reveal an entire hillside of twinkling lights – a kind of human anthill.
The grandeur of Mesa Verde's cliff-side dwellings and the awe-inspiring engineering feats of Chaco Canyon attest to the vibrant cultures that flourished in the American Southwest more than 1,000 years ago.
Although side-street dwellings, these were not dinky row houses; the 1910 census lists 10 servants in No. 16, and 8 each in Nos.
Lush green forest, a sweet breeze") to stock atrocity journalism ("A narrow corridor of filth, lined on either side with small dwellings made of trash, mud, scrap metal. Children with distended bellies, rotting food, men breaking rocks").
On one side of the Dwelling House is the owners' biggest challenge: the eerie remains of a Shaker stone barn.
If the past few seasons have shone a light on the real or perceived advantage of, well, ensuring your cellar-dwelling side maximises its potential to receive high draft picks, there is also something rewarding about a late-season surge.
This paper will briefly present the programme and presents preliminary results from the first study of how various adverse health effects are related to individual noise exposures among individuals in residential areas with and without access to a quiet side of the dwelling.
Evasion is the shadow side of overwrought explanation: dwelling on minutiae can mask a problem of unspeakable magnitude.
Having access to a quiet side of one's dwelling reduces disturbances by an average of 30 50% for the various critical effects, and corresponds to a reduction in sound levels of (LAeq,24h) 5 dB at the most-exposed side.
The study was designed to test whether having access to a quiet side of one's dwelling enhances opportunities for relaxation and reduces noise annoyance and other adverse health effects related to noise.
