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Keep up to dateBy Joanna Bassett2019-01-23T14:03:00
Rather than blindly throwing concrete at our cities, we should take pause and consider whether these homes are inspired by choice, or circumstance?
In the 1970s, a new home typically consisted of 83.3m² of floor space. Nearly 50 years later, a study by LABC Warranty found that in 2018 new homes built since 2010 measured 67.8m², a decrease of 18.6%. Within the cities, new-build flats are often far smaller. But when did such shrinkage become inevitable? Is it the result of the condensed occupational demands of the millennial, or could it be that we are merely shoehorning our lives into the only spaces left to us by our predecessors?
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