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ICONIC HOME DESIGNS
The colorful carport-equipped dingbat apartment buildings offered cheaper — and sometimes stylish — digs for generations of L.A. dreamers.
![How Los Angeles Became The City Of Dingbats](https://swap.stanford.edu/was/20151211033644im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ioh3RJ2.YS0M/v0/197x131.jpg)
Built to beat the heat, these distinctive elongated homes are a fixture of the Crescent City, and beyond.
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The ironclad homes of Iceland's capital city may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than century.
![Colorful Blue House Street Reykjavik Iceland](https://swap.stanford.edu/was/20151211033644im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ijmeQaCbM_.I/v1/197x131.jpg)
Singapore’s affordable housing program worked so well that some of its subsidized apartments now resell for more than $700,000.
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As Accra expanded in the late 19th century, residents recreated the communal homes they knew from the countryside. Today those buildings face overcrowding and demolition.
![Ghana Compound Housing](https://swap.stanford.edu/was/20151211033644im_/https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iz4ofkbVIP0I/v1/197x131.jpg)