Bearman, Camilo Llorens2014-03-142014-03-142000-02-14etd-05212003-101621http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33054Living in the city requires a balance between public and private modes and individual and communal identities. This project explores the subtleties and intricacies of architectural responses to these concerns in a housing development for a tight, typical urban block. Recognizing that the equilibrium between these opposites fluctuates and is different for each inhabitant, the connecting thresholds are expandable and changeable.In CopyrighthousingprivacycommunityurbanModal Shifts: Row Houses and Alley Houses in Old Town Alexandria, VirginiaThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05212003-101621/