Support for LAist comes from
Audience-funded nonprofit news
Stay Connected
Audience-funded nonprofit news
Listen
Podcasts Take Two
Can shipping containers be used as buildings?
solid orange rectangular banner
()
Apr 10, 2014
Listen 4:13
Can shipping containers be used as buildings?
The cost of housing in the city is making many people think small. And the micro movement loves to reuse and recycle.
Competition for cargo: good or bad?
Containers
(
Photo by Izabela Reimers via Flickr Creative Commons
)

The cost of housing in the city is making many people think small. And the micro movement loves to reuse and recycle.

The cost of housing in the city is making many people think small. And the micro movement loves to reuse and recycle. 

Enter the idea of a shipping container as a building. KUOW's Carolyn Adolph explores an idea that seems perfect, for a port city like Seattle.