They're copying Eastern Europe. We visited coastal cities in eight countries along the Baltic Sea one year, and were shown dwellings smaller than that were built and inhabited by city dwellers since the 16th century. The idea looked like misery to me, too. Maybe it will bolster the restaurant industry, though, in NYC with fewer foreign visitors visiting America due to oil prices.Of course, the quality of life is complete shit, but what do they care?We are going to pack citizens into small apartments close to work just like China to reduce energy wasted transporting people back & forth to work, school & shopping. Currently even if Chinese workers took home the same pay as we do, they would still save $4,000.00 a year on fuel over US workers. They live near work making them far more efficient than US.
In this photo provided by the New York Mayor's office, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, center, stands with Amanda Burden, left, Department of City Planning Director, and Commissioner Mathew Wambua, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, in the kitchenette area of a full-scale mockup of a 300 square foot apartment.
NYC Planners Turning Toward Tiny, Micro-Unit Dwellings (Bonus: 1-Square-Meter House)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okqa7qdAPbo"]One SQ Meter Home[/ame]Now, New York City planners are more formally catching onto the trend, thinking studio apartments measuring no more than 300 square feet might be attractive to a growing population of singles and two-person households.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday invited developers to propose ways to turn a Manhattan lot into an apartment building filled mostly with what officials are calling micro-units dwellings complete with a bathroom, built-in kitchenette and enough space for a careful planner to use a fold-out bed as both sleeping space and living room.
And leftists often complain of overcrowding animals and livestock, but in humans? meh. fuck em.