The Grow Home

by Avi Friedman

Book Overview

With economic restructuring, demographic shifts, and lifestyle changes, the traditional family - working father, stay-at-home mother, two to three children - is no longer the norm and the need for smaller homes at moderate cost has skyrocketed. The first prototype of the Grow Home was built on the campus of McGill University in 1990 and more than one thousand units were built across North America and Europe in the first year alone. In this illustrated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773522042
• ISBN13: 9780773522046
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A good book about small housing

This book is a good book about row, or town houses. It is not a picture, or one with a lot of plans and details. However, what plans and drawings that are present, and there are many are supported by the text that is worth reading. The book presents a frame work of how one might look at the issues of housing in general, and town houses in particular.