The single, solitary advantage of this is that by having a shop on the ground floor you don't get people gawping into the windows of ground-floor residential properties, because there aren't any.
Most people would solve this with a revolutionary product: curtains.
The advantage of this is that it's free real estate: there is less of a barrier to providing the working class accommodation a city needs when said working class accommodation doesn't have to bear the brunt of high land prices in such a premium location.
The single, solitary advantage of this is that by having a shop on the ground floor you don't get people gawping into the windows of ground-floor residential properties, because there aren't any.
Most people would solve this with a revolutionary product: curtains.
The advantage of this is that it's free real estate: there is less of a barrier to providing the working class accommodation a city needs when said working class accommodation doesn't have to bear the brunt of high land prices in such a premium location.