Submitted For Your Reading Pleasure: The Philadelphia Rowhouse Manual
Rowhouses. You’ve probably seen a few of them around. And yet, they contain mysteries. All kinds, really, too: How old they are, what special kinds of problems they have that other types of houses don’t, and so on. To this end, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission has put together a little something called The Philadelphia Rowhouse Manual [PDF], which is great not just because the book that came with yours was probably lost a very long time ago. And while we haven’t read it from cover to cover yet (catching up on Tour de France, sorry), it seems to be a pretty great survey of all things rowhouse. I’m just hoping they didn’t find the dirty magazines, bad report cards and Star Wars guys I buried under mine in 1984.
PhilaPlanning.org: The Philadelphia Rowhouse Manual [PDF]
July 15th, 2008 at 11:58 am
The book really needs only two words
SHARED COCKROACHES
July 17th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Great how they bypassed the traditional foreword and went with a “forward” instead.