In this article Gevorg Yeghikyan explores why some Western cities became worlds of apartment blocks while others became landscapes of row houses. Using Paris and London as the central contrast, he moves beyond familiar explanations about walls, density, culture, and zoning to build a deeper political-economic account of urban form: one shaped by inheritance law, land ownership, building codes, finance, developer scale, and tenure. The result is an ambitious framework for understanding not just nineteenth-century Paris, Berlin, London, and Madrid, but the recurring patterns behind how cities are still built today.

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