if anyone knew the ibc history of 2 exits its @holz-bau.bsky.social. my guess is it came around the 1930s or so after some fires but also because planners realized it was a way to force building of SFHs over apartments
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i read a planning master's thesis from the late 70s or early 80s that stated it was intro'd in toronto to stop apartments from spreading outside of the downtown core and off arterials. it was also related to a movement that was opposed to women's liberation and letting them live on their own iirc.
what years roughly? i saw the planner from new york city in the 30s i think basically say we should saddle apartments with the strictest fire codes and not do the same for SFHs to assure they are built and apts not
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'Toronto's first apartment-house boom : An historical geography, 1900-1920'
p. 10
https://utoronto.scholaris.ca/items/5dd4b614-b699-487b-9b60-5cc71ecd6448
NYC required fire escapes be added to unsafe buildings for the first time in 1867.