<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/abc17070-afc5-46be-902b-0d95ac6cdd65/27179EC9-4AF3-412A-8D16-A63AD69CE1EF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://weburbanist.com/2007/09/17/mobile-urban-architecture-from-portable-housing-to-temporary-hotel-rooms/" href="http://weburbanist.com/2007/09/17/mobile-urban-architecture-from-portable-housing-to-temporary-hotel-rooms/" style="font-size: 11px;">weburbanist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2007/09/17/mobile-urban-architecture-from-portable-housing-to-temporary-hotel-rooms/"><P>The <A title="GMC PAD" href="http://auto.howstuffworks.com/gmc-pad.htm">GMC PAD</A> was designed as an alternative to the financial problems of fixed living, particularly in areas with high land prices such as Southern California. Others have proposed it would be useful as an alternative FEMA-type <A title="Fema Slug?" href="http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2006/01/nomadic-urbanism-future-fema-slugs.html">emergency residence</A>. Sustainability is, of course, of great concern in something that is in effect a souped-up kind of <STRONG>advanced mobile home</STRONG>. This portable living unit was therefore designed a diesel-electric hybrid. It also comes equipped with photovalic cells that charge onboard batteries, <EM>increasing the necessary time between refuels to weeks or even months.</EM></p> <P><IMG width="450" height="672" alt="Shipping Container Architecture" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1001/1399211370_ec6fd8a6b2_o.jpg" /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/27179EC9-4AF3-412A-8D16-A63AD69CE1EF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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