In twenty years, people will want homes that are half the size of today’s mini-mansions, for half the price, a leading futurist claims. And housing will get denser, as exurban areas turn into small city centers. It all sounds awesome. The trouble is, futurists were making the exact same prediction twenty years ago, says the Chicago Sun Times’ Sally Duros. It’ll take massive economic transformations, not just a cultural shift, to make people want smaller homes in denser areas, she predicts. [Sun Times]
