Container Cities
Reader hd passes on a link about shipping container homes from Urban Space Management, a group of builders in London who are building entire communities, schools, and farmer’s markets using old freight containers:
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Creating Mobile Offshore Bases Using Barges
Some projects for establishing ocean communities are investigated and then given up for several reasons. One of them is the Mobile Offshore Base (M.O.B.) concept by U.S. Navy. It was considered technically possible, but too expensive. Nevertheless, working on the idea, we have developed a proposal for a seastead based on several barges moored between them.
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More shipping container homes
via OpenWorld comes the post How to Live in a Shipping Container, with a number of pictures of shipping container homes:
Containerized Housing
On a forum thread, Thorizan posted several interesting links to cargo container-based housing.
CNN: Recycled homes, one box at a time
Using containers to build homes has increasingly become a trend in the past several years because it can be cheaper and faster than using traditional constr
