New and Old #38

Friday roundup and commentary

The Single-Staircase Radicals Have a Good Point, Slate, Henry Grabar, December 23, 2021

Most American apartment buildings over four stories are required to include two means of egress from every apartment. In Canada, the height limit of a single-stair building is just two stories. The purported reason for such rules is fire safety, though there’s no evid…