What is a townhouse

The house is a house with European and American style. Generally, it is a detached or duplex, villa-style house with four or three open sides, decorated in a distinctly Western style, with a living room, dining room, and several sets of bathrooms.

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Twenty Years of Witnessing the Strange Situation (二十年目睹之怪现状)第四九回："Just rented a foreign house on Wumao Road, and named it Jinghua Yanghang."

Mao Dun? The Night of the Son, 12: "The five-room, three-story house had only two window holes on the third floor from which light came out."

Expanded Information:

"Garden house" in the narrow sense: that is, Garden Villa (garden villa), which is usually referred to as a garden house, Western-style house, small house, with a garden lawn and garage of the one-yard bungalow or two- or three-story small building, emphasizing the household has a garden, including the market of the foreign-style townhouse (or duplex) of the TOWNHOUSE.

Broadly speaking, the Garden Villa: broadly speaking, the Garden Villa is no longer a villa, and in a sense it is called a Garden House or a Garden Apartment. More relevant, the current market for the existence of the garden house most of the garden house in the broad sense, from the national real estate market, the broad sense of the garden house can be defined as:

11 floors of multi-storey board-type buildings, mainly four-storey, foreign architectural style is obvious, emphasizing the landscape are good, the green rate is relatively high, commonly found in the far suburbs of the district, generally the first floor of the garden, the top floor of the balcony, but also the introduction of outdoor green landscape into the indoor. The introduction of outdoor green landscape into the indoor situation.

Garden houses originated in Shanghai, and since the mid-19th century, they have been exclusive to the upper class in Shanghai, Fujian and Guangdong, and are the product of the intertwining of Western civilization and lifestyle with Chinese culture. More specifically, it was a rare and highly profitable residential product developed by domestic real estate developers in response to the market demand brought about by the establishment of the Shanghai Concession, targeting a specific minority class and adopting Western architectural forms, new engineering technologies and new building materials. From the point of view of the definition of real estate nowadays, the garden house at that time is equivalent to the single-family villa in the real estate market nowadays.

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