Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
Habitat 67 was supposed to be the prototype for cheap housing
Prefab concrete boxes stacked so every unit gets a garden on someone else's roof. It was meant to make housing cheap. It ended up as sought-after (not cheap) condos instead.
4 sources · 22 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “habitat 67 montreal”
- Ended at
- Expo 67
The Trail
- “habitat 67 montreal” (google.com)
- Habitat 67 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Moshe Safdie (en.wikipedia.org)
- Expo 67 (en.wikipedia.org)
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