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Faced with a shortage of housing, the answer was clear. Prefabricated houses by the hundreds, churned out of factories using standard designs. Workers and their families soon filled them in the heart of a growing commercial hotspot and a new suburb was born. Sure the houses all looked alike, but their occupants had a roof over their heads and soon the house-proud residents in their distinctive architecture were a community. Auckland 2021? Try Hamilton’s Frankton Railway Village 1920. A century on from the beginning of a unique New Zealand architectural style, those who today call Frankton’s railway houses home are staying true to its roots in an age of increasing urban intensification. ....