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17-402: Westview may refer to: Places [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Westview Village, Edmonton , a neighbourhood Westview, British Columbia , a community and ferry terminal Westview, Saskatoon , a neighbourhood Westview, Saskatchewan United States [ edit ] Westview, Florida Westview, Atlanta , Georgia,

34-454: A community hall and outdoor rink located at West View Boulevard and West View Crescent. In the City of Edmonton's 2019 municipal census, Westview Village had a population of 2,124 living in 1,053 dwellings, a -5.6% change from its 2012 population of 2,242 . With a land area of 0.92 km (0.36 sq mi), it had a population density of 2,309 people/km in 2019. Over half

51-471: A common central wall. As such they are usually a mirror image of each other in layout. Also referred to as a maisonette in South Australia. A paired home is two homes that share a wall and have opposite side entries. The whole building is designed to look like one single larger home. Unlike a front to front duplex, the paired home helps provide more privacy for the homeowners. In urban planning ,

68-441: A flat or apartment on two floors connected by an inner staircase though many newer apartments have open-plan designs including mezzanines. The far more commonly used term is 'maisonette' meaning two dwellings split horizontally, like flats, but each with their own separate external door, unlike flats which have a shared external door. In Australia , a duplex is often considered a residential building containing two homes that share

85-405: A historic neighborhood southwest of downtown Westview, Illinois Westview, Indiana Westview, Maryland , a suburb of Baltimore Westview (Brookneal, Virginia) , a historic plantation house and farm Media [ edit ] Westview (album) , a 2011 album by Monkey Majik Westview Press , an American academic publisher Westview, New Jersey , a fictional town depicted in

102-461: A more general multiplex . Because of the flexibility of the term, the line between an apartment building and a duplex is somewhat blurred, with apartment buildings tending to be bigger, while duplexes are usually the size of a single-family house. In dense areas like Manhattan and downtown Chicago , a duplex or duplex apartment refers to a maisonette , a single dwelling unit spread over two floors connected by an indoor staircase. Similarly,

119-596: A triplex apartment refers to an apartment spread out over three floors. These properties can be quite expensive and include the most expensive property in Manhattan as of 2006 (according to Forbes magazine ), a triplex atop The Pierre hotel. In this context, an apartment located on only one floor may be called a simplex. In the United Kingdom , the term duplex is sometimes used by property professionals such as architects and estate agents and refers only to

136-409: Is high, with roughly 97% of homes being owner occupied. Westview Village is surrounded by Winterburn Industrial . This Edmonton Metropolitan Region location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Duplex (building) A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other as townhouses , condominiums or one above

153-430: Is used and defines as a "residential building that contains 2 dwelling units located on a single lot. The dwelling units must share a common wall or common floor/ceiling." Where cities do not define the relationship of the dwelling units to one another, units may be built one on top of the other, or one beside the other. The latter arrangement is more specifically referred to as a semi-detached building. Many cities in

170-407: The 2021 TV series WandaVision See also [ edit ] West View (disambiguation) Westview High School (disambiguation) Westview School (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Westview . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

187-498: The homes in Westview Village (54.2%) were moved into the park during the 1970s, with a small percentage (4.2%) predating 1970. After 1980, the number of new homes being moved into the neighbourhood dropped off, with roughly 150 homes being moved into the neighbourhood in each of the following decades. The majority of the homes in the neighbourhood are manufactured homes, though there are a few duplexes . Owner-occupancy

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204-545: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westview&oldid=1099605552 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Westview Village, Edmonton The community is represented by the Westview Village Community League , established in 1985, which maintains

221-570: The other like apartments . By contrast, a building comprising two attached units on two distinct properties is typically considered semi-detached or twin homes but is also called a duplex in parts of the Northeastern United States , Western Canada , and Saudi Arabia . The term "duplex" is not extended to three-unit and four-unit buildings, as they would be referred to with specific terms such as three-family (or triplex ) and fourplex (or quadplex / quadruplex ) or

238-449: The other, with each having a separate entrance". Toronto proposes in their new Zoning Bylaw to define 'Duplex Building' as a building that has only two dwelling units, and one dwelling unit is entirely or partially on top of the other dwelling unit. Halifax defines Duplex Dwelling as "the whole of a dwelling that is divided horizontally into two separate dwelling units, each of which has an independent entrance". Other major cities use

255-406: The roofline. Other major cities do not use the term duplex in their zoning or land-use bylaws. San Francisco and Vancouver use the term Two-family dwelling. Winnipeg uses the term Dwelling, two-family. The definitions of these terms do not specify the physical relationship between the two dwelling units in the building. In cities such as Buffalo , Detroit and Chicago , the term "two-flat"

272-493: The term duplex is used more specifically. Major Canadian cities sometimes use the term duplex to refer specifically to a building with one unit built above another . Edmonton defines 'Duplex Housing' as "development consisting of a building containing only two Dwellings, with one Dwelling placed over the other in whole or in part with individual and separate access to each Dwelling". Calgary defines Duplex Dwelling as "a building which contains two Dwelling Units, one located above

289-408: The term duplex, but for dwelling units. Dallas defines the term duplex as "two dwelling units located on a lot". Philadelphia defines a duplex dwelling as "a dwelling occupied as the home or residence of two (2) families, under one (1) roof, each family occupying a single unit", a definition that excludes a pair of twin (semi-detached) houses, two dwellings separated by a firewall that extends above

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