Actually the main usage and purposes of container city is as temporary house replacement during nature disaster such as earthquake, flood, etc. But later these lovely container have evolve and change its function into small cities full with all public facilities such as shopping center and garden.

We could see during Katrina storm and earthquake in Haiti, these are the examples of container build for solving nature disaster. While we also could see container being changed into a city by businessman in Mexico, and of course its nothing got to do with disaster, its for commercial purpose only.
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I sat down at the slender, grey-topped table next to the leafy fence that marked the edge of the Gimbsheim Weinbrunnenfest. My company for the evening, all of whom were more than three times my age, could easily have been half the participants in any small town ladies night bingo club.

Expecting to slowly sip a glass of wine or two over conversation of knitting, gardening, or perhaps if it got a little edgy, how so-and-so had stolen someone else’s goulash recipe and passed it off as their own, I settled in with a mild sense of dread. (more…)

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