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Also, this architectural choice represents the kind of people that colonized latin america and anglo-saxoan colonies.
Spain and Portugal sent city bureaucrats to coastal towns, to supervise mining and extraction of goods done by slaves/natives.
Those bureaucrats didn't venture to the countryside, and wanted to live in houses like they had in their cities.
European cities were already very dense, so urban architecture evolved pushing front gardens to backyards and building taller residences.
British sent farmers to go deep into the countryside, find arable lands and create towns, those farmers wanted to live in wide spaces, in large houses to accommodate large families, houses like those that landlords in England had, Georgian style country houses, with front gardens.