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"    Photo by General Motors Admit it: The first time you saw that shipping container apartment in TRON: Legacy, you thought, &amp;quot;Who doesn&amp;#039;t want to live in a half bachelor pad, half motorcycle shed overlooking the harbor like an urbane Ducati-riding badass?&amp;quot; General Motors is going to make that strange dream come true for someone. By partnering with the nonprofit Michigan Urban Farming Initiative (MUFI), the company will build Detroit&amp;#039;s first occupied shipping container dwelling.     Photo by General Motors The idea here is to demonstrate how the global industry&amp;#039;s leftovers can be repurposed for &amp;quot;dwellings oriented toward urban agriculture.&amp;quot; Measuring 40&amp;#039;x8&amp;#039;x10&amp;#039; (320 square-feet), the Homestead is slated to use 85 percent scrap materials. GM says it has recycled an array of automotive parts, including Chevrolet Volt battery cases for birdhouses, sound-deadening for insulation, and wooden pallets\u2014like those used to ship engines and transmissions\u2014for furniture (what, no oil catch can teapot?). Once completed, the house will be transported to MUFI&amp;#039;s urban garden in the New Center neighborhood for a student to take up residence. Okay, so a horde of container-dwelling, agriculturally-inclined hipsters living on vacant lots is a slightly bizarre vision for Detroit&amp;#039;s future. But in this flannel-swathed FarmVille fantasy, GM might&amp;#039;ve unintentionally realized the dream of a million sci-fi nerds. We&amp;#039;ll take ours on the lake with a Lotus C-01 behind the sofa, thank you very much. READ WHY: The 2015 Ford F-150 will change your junkyard forever Originally posted at roadandtrack.com.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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