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How Small is too small? Bangkok (frugal) Living

Author(s) -

Nuttinee Karnchanaporn

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

idea journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2208-9217

pISSN - 1445-5412

DOI - 10.37113/ideaj.v0i0.109

Subject(s) - bedroom , apartment , dream , living room , ideal (ethics) , cost of living , geography , business , living space , economy , socioeconomics , sociology , economic growth , economics , architectural engineering , engineering , political science , psychology , civil engineering , law , archaeology , neuroscience

Is it too small? ‘It’ is a one-bedroom private apartment with a floor area of 20 square metres, an ideal for the new way of living in the Bangkok metropolis. As advertised, developers invite their buyers to look into the advantages of low-cost, convenient locations, domestic conveniences and less domestic labours. Bangkok city dwellers become convinced of the shifts toward more convenient domesticity and dream of their (frugal) apartments. The paper examines the interior economy of the family living in such a small apartment and the ways in which it alters the family relationships and homelife of the urban residents. With the increasing numbers of urban residents who buy small living units in high-rise condominiums, how are we to understand the effect of this phenomenon? How small is too small? Bangkok (frugal) Living

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