The growing trend of living small : a critical approach to shrinking domesticities / edited by Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki and Tim White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Ella (Sociologist), editor.

Nowicki, Mel, editor.

White, Tim (Sociologist), editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Home

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing.

Domestic relations.

Sustainable living.

Storage in the home.

Small houses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

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.

Contents:

Co-living housing-as-a-service and COVID-19 : micro-housing and institutional precarity / Tegan Bergan & Rae Dufty-Jones

Shifting domesticities in the Metropole Hotel / Jeffrey Kruth

Political narratives of shrinking domesticities in Helsinki and Vienna / Johanna Lilius, Michael Friesenecker & Maximilian Krankl

Shrinking aspirations : the potential impact of build to rent models on housing transitions / Daniel Durrant & Frances Brill

Glamorising the materiality of 'living small' : de-stuffocation, storage, and tiny living aesthetics / Jen Owen

Freedom or dispossession? : imaginaries of small, mobile living in the film Nomadland / Harris, E., Nowicki, M. and White, T.

Decent homes in compact living? : conventional ideals in unconventional contexts / Anne Hedegaard Winther

The tiny home lifestyle (THL) : a contemporary response to the neoliberalisation of housing / Megan Carras

Understanding tiny house sustainabilities throught the lens of frictions / Hilton Penfold, Gordon Waitt and Pauline McGuirk

Meshing with your home : seeking trouble in sharing dwelled spaces / Lauren Wagner & Clemens Driessen

Minimalist lifestyles : performance, animism and desire for degrowth / Miriam Meissner

Tiny houses and the economics of sufficiency : how 'shrinking domesticities' fit within the degrowth paradigm / Samuel Alexander and Heather Shearer

Tiny living as an everyday practice of sufficiency : some experiences of tiny house owners in Germany / Petra Lütkey & Loisa Elbracht

The tiny house movement : ecology, survival and inequality / Jenny Pickerill, Adam Barker & Jingjing Wang

Cluster apartments : living with less as a model for lived solidarity? / Manuel Lutz

Heterotopia : a new perspective on female-led tiny house projects / Alice Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Growing trend of living small.

ISBN:

9781003173052

1003173055

9781000726633

1000726630

9781000726596

1000726592

Publisher Number:

40031599373

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.