The accepted position is that the domestic model inherited from the nineteenth century, which placed family at the center, is today obsolete or at least in crisis. Terrance Riley, MoMA 1999 Solo living is an environmental time bomb. University College, London Environment, Development and Sustainability 2006 It is also a question of the kind of lifestyles sold to single people. If representations of singleness in pop culture teach us anything it's that the single identity is maintained through conspicuous consumption. Witness Carrie Bradshaw's shoe fetish and the wasteful cardboard boxes that entails. University of Derby, London Sustainable Singletons 2006 Occupancy Taxes UK Taub Residence Brooklyn, NY 2005 Senzokuike Style House Collective Housing Tokyo, 2004