{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.rearhouse","code":"thing-q488654","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q488654/","name":"rearhouse","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.BLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A rearhouse is a dwelling built behind another building on the same plot, facing a rear yard or court rather than the street, a form of dense urban housing associated with the crowded cities of the industrial era, such as the back-to-back and courtyard housing of nineteenth-century Britain and Europe; rearhouses often had poor light, ventilation and sanitation, and many were cleared under later housing and public health reforms. The term is mainly historical, and surviving examples are sometimes conserved as heritage.","purpose":"Let an agent explain rearhouses, relay their form, historical context, public health concerns and clearance from architectural and social history sources, and distinguish rearhouses from back-to-back houses, tenements, courtyard housing and modern rear extensions.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Behind a front building","Faces a rear court","Dense industrial housing","Often cleared"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What a rearhouse is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is a rearhouse, and how does it differ from back-to-back houses, tenements, courtyard housing and modern rear extensions?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about architectural history or a surviving heritage building?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"form","name":"Form","description":"Form.","findings":[{"id":"form-finding","name":"Form","description":"Form.","questions":[{"text":"How were rearhouses arranged behind front buildings?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which entry fits back-to-back house?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"history","name":"History","description":"History.","layers":[{"id":"industrial","name":"Industrial","description":"Industrial housing.","findings":[{"id":"industrial-finding","name":"Industrial","description":"Industrial.","questions":[{"text":"How did rearhouses house workers in industrial cities?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"conditions","name":"Conditions","description":"Living conditions.","findings":[{"id":"conditions-finding","name":"Conditions","description":"Conditions.","questions":[{"text":"Why did rearhouses have poor light and sanitation?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"reform","name":"Reform","description":"Public health reform.","layers":[{"id":"clearance","name":"Clearance","description":"Slum clearance.","findings":[{"id":"clearance-finding","name":"Clearance","description":"Clearance.","questions":[{"text":"How were rearhouses cleared under public health reforms?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits slum clearance?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"acts","name":"Acts","description":"Housing acts.","findings":[{"id":"acts-finding","name":"Acts","description":"Acts.","questions":[{"text":"Which housing and public health acts affected rearhouses?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the information accurate?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Heritage.","layers":[{"id":"heritage","name":"Heritage","description":"Conserved examples.","findings":[{"id":"heritage-finding","name":"Heritage","description":"Heritage.","questions":[{"text":"How are surviving back-to-backs and rearhouses conserved?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the information current?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"terms","name":"Terms","description":"Regional terms.","findings":[{"id":"terms-finding","name":"Terms","description":"Terms.","questions":[{"text":"How do regional terms for rear dwellings differ?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation neutral and attributed?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe rearhouses and their history from reliable sources.","Identify listed rearhouses from heritage records."],"mustNot":["Present a rearhouse as safe or vacant without checking with its owner.","Direct people into private courtyards or homes without permission.","Recommend demolishing a protected rearhouse.","Romanticise historic slum conditions or stigmatise people who lived in them."],"requiresHuman":["Any change to a rearhouse that is listed or occupied."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Rearhouses record how poor urban families lived; their history deserves honest treatment.","Occupants of rear courts have a right to privacy behind the street front."],"affectedParties":["Occupants","Neighbours","Heritage communities"]},"owners":{"steward":"The owner of the plot; the land registry records title and heritage bodies record protection.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Land registry or cadastre","Heritage listing registers"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q41176","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"dwelling","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"back-to-back house","type":"related"},{"target":"tenement","type":"related"},{"target":"courtyard house","type":"related"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.rearhouse","Wikidata: Q488654 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q488654)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["era: industrial nineteenth century note","conditions: poor light and sanitation note","registry parent: building note"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["Dwelling built behind another on the same plot","Rearhouse, back dwelling","Back-to-backs share a rear wall; 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