How to Build a Fine-Grained City: Party Walls, Point Access, and Granular Blocks
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It is also safer because stupidity or neglect in one structure does not always impact the adjacent structure...though of course it can.
[edit: this is my favorite wall assembly for light construction https://www.usg.com/content/dam/USG_Marketing_Communications...]