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08-05-2016, 01:44 AM
Airbnb tries urban planning — and hotels — with 'Samara'
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Airbnb is moving beyond home-sharing with a new design firm called Samara.
The new initiative pushes the company into a type of urban planning, with the firm positioned to evaluate declining small towns that could benefit from an Airbnb-sponsored project. Those projects themselves, as Business Insider pointed out (http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-builds-hotel-japan-community-samara-yoshi**-2016-8), look a lot like hotels or hostels.*
The first project is a community center in a small town in Japan. But unlike a typical community center — and like a hotel — it hosts travelers. The building includes a living room, a kitchen and a 16-foot communal dining table, according to FastCo Design (http://www.fastcodesign.com/3062246/an-exclusive-look-at-airbnbs-first-foray-into-urban-planning), which profiled the project for its launch.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/airbnb-samara-design-hotels/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Airbnb is moving beyond home-sharing with a new design firm called Samara.
The new initiative pushes the company into a type of urban planning, with the firm positioned to evaluate declining small towns that could benefit from an Airbnb-sponsored project. Those projects themselves, as Business Insider pointed out (http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-builds-hotel-japan-community-samara-yoshi**-2016-8), look a lot like hotels or hostels.*
The first project is a community center in a small town in Japan. But unlike a typical community center — and like a hotel — it hosts travelers. The building includes a living room, a kitchen and a 16-foot communal dining table, according to FastCo Design (http://www.fastcodesign.com/3062246/an-exclusive-look-at-airbnbs-first-foray-into-urban-planning), which profiled the project for its launch.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/04/airbnb-samara-design-hotels/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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