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A house is built by trades that barely coordinate with each other, which is what makes housing cheap to design and almost impossible to redesign.

Drawn from what Brian Potter said

Subjectsdesignhousing

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

housing What a place to live costs and why: how much gets built, zoning, and who is blamed for the price.

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What Brian Potter actually said

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  1. Brian Potter

    Structural engineer and writer

    What is different about construction is the level of coordination that takes place: whereas in a car everything is carefully designed to tightly integrate together, in housing construction the work can be done (and often is) with surprisingly little coordination between the various trades.

    Where this was said

    ↗What Makes Housing So Expensive?construction-physics.com

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