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Brave New Home - Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing (Hardcover)
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Brave New Home - Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R593
Discovery Miles 5 930
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Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have
shifted dramatically. If trends continue, we should expect to see
more people living alone, later-in-life marriages, fewer (and
smaller) new families, and a majority-minority population that
skews older and older. Americans' daily life and preferences have
also changed, whether by choice or by force, to become more
virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But housing today largely
looks the same as it did in 1950. In Brave New Home, Diana Lind
shows why the government-subsidized suburbs full of single-family
houses are bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts
underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that
the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind
takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking
alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living,
in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and
new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories
of Americans caught in or forging their on paths outside of our
cookie-cutter housing trap, Brave New Home offers a diagnosis of
the current crisis in American housing and a radical re-imagining
of the possibilities of housing.
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