The Growing Trend of Living Small: A Critical Approach to Shrinking Domesticities

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Ella Harris Mel Nowicki

The Growing Trend of Living Small

A Critical Approach to Shrinking Domesticities

Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki, Tim White

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English

Routledge
31 January 2023

Architecture; Homelessness; Human geography; Economic geography; The environment

Series: Home

This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds. Small spaces have become big business. Reducing the size of our homes, and the amount of stuff within them, is increasingly sold as a catch-all solution to the stresses of modern life and the need to reduce our carbon footprint. Shrinking living space is being repackaged in a neoliberal capitalist context as a lifestyle choice rather than the consequence of diminishing choice in the face of what has become a long-term housing ‘crisis’. What does this mean for how we live in the long term, and is there a dark side to the promise of a simpler, more sustainable home life? Shrinking Domesticities brings together research from across the social sciences, planning and architecture to explore these issues. From co-living developments to the Tiny House Movement, self-storage units to practices of ‘de-stuffification’, and drawing on examples from across Europe, North America and Australasia, the authors of this volume seek to understand both what micro-living is bringing to our societies, and what it may be eroding

Edited by: Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki, Tim White
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 703g
ISBN: 9780367764463
ISBN 10: 0367764466
Series: Home
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 31 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ella Harris is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Urban/Cultural Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Mel Nowicki is a Reader in Urban Geography at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Tim White is a undertaking a PhD in Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.