Row Houses in Curepipe (Cite Malherbes)
Row Houses (or what is commonly known as lakaz Cit é ) in Mauritius was a scheme created by the Government so as to provide (at very low cost) decent and habitable housing for people who are low on the social ladder. Basically, a rowhouse is one of a group of low-rise residential buildings that shares one or both side walls and a roofline with the structures next door. As the name indicates, all the houses are arranged in a row, perfectly aligned next to each other. The lakaz cite are normally constructed on the outskirts and in the shadows of cities/towns/villages. In this piece of writing, I will be considering Cite Malherbes, which is found in between Curepipe and Wooton, Mauritius. Row houses in Mauritius have bad reputation in terms of wild construction that has a mushroom growth, which gets denser and denser, in proportion with the number of inhabitants in the cite. As a butterfly effect, this leads to a congestion of space, with little or no privacy. As Aravena says on Rio de