Tiny Houses in the City [Hardcover]

A presentation of micro-scaled contemporary residences that demonstrate domesticity can be both compact and beautiful. How we live in cities—smaller, denser, smarter—is at the heart ofTiny Houses in the City. Urban areas across the globe are experiencing a renaissance, with once-forgotten downtowns and neighborhoods becoming increasingly popular for redevelopment. This book looks at the tiny house movement through the lens of metropolitan life.Tiny Houses in the Cityfeatures an international collection of more than thirty homes that exemplify compact living at its best. The houses, apartments, and multifamily buildings and developments included make great architecture out of challenging locations and narrow sites. Focusing on dwelling spaces all under 1,000 square feet,Tiny Houses in the Cityillustrates strategies for building tiny in urban areas that include urban infill, adaptive reuse, transforming and flexible living spaces, and micro-unit buildings. The projects range from a 344-square-foot studio apartment in Hong Kong with movable walls, transformable furniture, and hidden storage that can be configured into twenty-four unique scenarios in a single space, to a townhouse-like London residence built in an old alley between two stately homes. Many of the residences chronicled inTiny Houses in the Cityare indeed unique in design, but their economical size and ingenious interior spaces are the epitome of practicality and illustrate an acute understanding of compact living and its potential for the urban realm. The notion of how we live (think 'smaller, denser and smarter') in a large city is the basis of journalist and critic Mimi Zeiger's new bookTiny Houses in the City.Citing the tiny house movement in once-forgotten urban neighborhoods all over the world, the author compiles the spaces of more than 30 houses, apartments, and multi-family dwellings under 1,000 square feet. . .Unique, economical, creative, and pralóå