A presentation of micro-scaled contemporaryresidences that demonstrate domesticity can beboth compact and beautiful. How we live in cities smaller, denser, smarter is at theheart of Tiny Houses in the City. Urban areas acrossthe globe are experiencing a renaissance, with onceforgottendowntowns and neighborhoods becomingincreasingly popular for redevelopment. This booklooks at the tiny house movement through the lens ofmetropolitan life. Tiny Houses in the City features an internationalcollection of more than thirty homes that exemplifycompact living at its best. The houses, apartments, and multifamily buildings and developments includedmake great architecture out of challenging locationsand narrow sites. Focusing on dwelling spaces allunder 1,000 square feet, Tiny Houses in the City illustratesstrategies for building tiny in urban areas thatinclude urban infill, adaptive reuse, transforming and flexible living spaces, and micro-unit buildings. The projects range from a 344-square-foot studioapartment in Hong Kong with movable walls, transformablefurniture, and hidden storage that can beconfigured into twenty-four unique scenarios in asingle space, to a townhouse-like London residencebuilt in an old alley between two stately homes. Many of the residences chronicled in Tiny Houses in the City are indeed unique in design, but theireconomical size and ingenious interior spaces arethe epitome of practicality and illustrate an acuteunderstanding of compact living and its potential forthe urban realm.