Houses

This house make me think about great parties, maybe because is at the corner of the street it is a house where the owner usually can see the parades go and have a lot more neighbors just because this house has more view to the street.

This one instead make me think about a quiet family, who sit at their porch at the evening to talk to the other neighbors about their days. You can see the kitchen from the street if they leave the door open and the contact with the surroundings is permanent.

Last for not least, this house for me represents the epitome of living together but separate. Three families, three houses, divided just by a wood wall. I can imagine how you can hear all the noises from the other families in your own house.

After look at these houses and compare them with the ones at the garden district is so clear to me why the culture between those two is so different. At the Marigny all the houses are so close one each other and some times with no space at all that the people there learned to interact

all the time, and that become part of their every day life. On the other hand, at Uptown the houses are separated not only by gardens but also by fences making people retreat to their own houses and avoiding any contact with their neighbors.