Small Spaces in the City review: Can we thrive in a smaller future?

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Small Spaces in the City review: Can we thrive in a smaller future?

As we increasingly live in cities, tiny apartments are likely to become the norm. A new exhibition has clever space-managing ideas – but also stark warnings about the health challenges ahead

By Simon Ings

12 February 2024

�鶹��ý. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine. — Takeshi Hosaka’s micro-home, Love2 House, in Tokyo, features in the Small Spaces in the City exhibition.
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ROCA London Gallery, until 16 March 2024

“Cook’s at it again,” reads one Antarctic station log entry from the 1970s. “Threw a lemon pie and cookies all over the galley… then went to his room for a couple of days and wouldn’t come out… no clear reason… probably Antarctictites catching up…”

It isn’t just the behavioural challenges induced by small spaces that give designers pause, as they contemplate our ever-more constrained…

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