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Tract housing is a style of housing development in which multiple identical, or nearly-identical, homes are built. Tracts are typically found in american suburbs. As a tract housing development only makes use of a few designs, labor costs are reduced because the builders need only learn the skills of constructing a single home design, which can be applied to the other tract homes in the development.
Fairhaven Neighborhood 140 houses Fairhaven Neighborhood Atrium :: Fairhaven Neighborhood

Eichler Homes Inc. Fairhaven Neighborhood Woodland Street - City of Orange - Orange County - California
First Eichler Homes Inc. neighborhood in Southern California 1962 by architects Anshen + Allen
Joe Eichler Homes Inc. Fairmeadows Fairmeadows Neighborhood Glendale Avenue :: Cambridge Street :: Orange :: California Eichler Homes Inc. Fairmeadows Neighborhood 1962 A. Quincy Jones + Claude Oakland

Eichler Homes Inc. Fairmeadows Neighborhood Glendale Avenue + Cambridge Street - Orange County - O.C.
Glass, minimal interior walls, post + beam structure 1962 by architects A. Quincy Jones + Claude Oakland
Fairhills Eichler Development Fairhills Neighborhood North Granada Drive :: Valencia Drive :: Linda Vista :: Orange :: California Eichler Homes Inc. Fairhills Neighborhood

Joseph Eichler Homes Inc. Fairhills Neighborhood North Granada + Valencia + Linda Vista - Orange County
Fairhills Eichler Development 1964 by architects Jones + Emmons with Claude Oakland

The materials used in the home are ordered in bulk, reducing materials costs. Components such as roof trusses are fabricated in factories and installed on site. These practices reduce the final price of the homes, and makes the developers very happy. Architect designed neighborhoods have changed the face of tract housing. While early tract houses were virtually identical, builders have managed to create an illusion of uniqueness in their neighborhoods: Two homes built next to each other might be identical in layout, but have different external facades.


Eichler Homes Inc. Balboa Highlands Darla Avenue + Lisette Street + Nanette Street + Jimeno Avenue
Los Angeles - A-frame model, slope or flat roof 1964 by architects A. Quincy Jones + Frederick E. Emmons
A-frame model :: Rationalized building systems, sensitive site design, attention to the owner and experimentation with design and materials A-frame model :: Balboa Highlands are abot 100 homes Flat roof :: Balboa Highlands Neighborhood :: Los Angeles :: California Flat roof :: Balboa Highlands was to be one of the last Eichler tracts
Slope roof :: Balboa Highlands Eichler Development The partnership of A. Quincy Jones + Frederick E. Emmons was created in 1951 and lasted until Emmons' retirement in December 1969   you-are-here.com since 2003-05-01




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