Here is a basic floor plan of one:
Micro Apartment Floor Plan - 96 sq feet

Poor layout. Move the stove to the other side of the counter, so the stove isn't making your refrigerator do extra work.

Normal-sized stoves and refrigerators are 32", not 24", so those appliances will have their usability greatly reduced. Typical baking sheets probably wouldn't fit in that oven. At that level of non-usability, you might as well remove the stove entirely and just get more counter space, and put a single counter-top stove burner on the counter if you actually plan to do stove-top cooking (I have no experience with those counter-top ones... I shudder to think about it though). Since you're getting rid of the oven, you can then also get rid of the oven-ware you wouldn't have any place to store anyway.

The bathroom doesn't have enough room for a toilet and a sink, so either you're urinating in the bathroom sink or shower, or you're washing your hands in the kitchen sink. You could have the sink above the toilet itself, which would actually save water (grey water from sink just falls into toilet tank) - such things exist, but I imagine myself always bumping into the toilet bowl with my legs while trying to wash my hands.

On the other hand, that shower doesn't need to be 3x3 feet. It could be 2x3 and still be usable, if a little cramped. The idea of having a 1ft wide door to get into the shower stall is pretty unrealistic, IMO.

There doesn't really need to be a special wall between the shower and bathroom.

I wouldn't have a "bed/couch combo", instead, I'd build a window-seat style bed with a less-than twin-size mattress on it. Underneath, you have pull out drawers for cloth-storage. When I was younger, I built with my dad a windowseat with a full twin-size mattress and built-in bookcase, with storage below (you had to lift up the mattress to get at the storage though). It wasn't hard to make, and we even had to reroute/expand a heat vent and an electric outlet to continue through the windowseat to the room (so a vent and an electric outlet was built into the windowseat).

I'd move the desk to the south wall, and expand it a foot horizontally to give more workspace. This also allows you to move the kitchen counter down another foot, which actually would give you enough space for a standard 32" refrigerator. Between the kitchen counter and the desk I'd have a "half-wall" to separate them, or at least a thin by 6" high raised edge on the countertop. Ofcourse that entire layout doesn't even take into account wall sizes and standard door sizes. The bathroom wall can't take an imaginary zero width.

I'd rather get a roommate in a larger apartment and split the rent.

I don't need much bedroom space (basically a bed and 2x3 of closet space), but I need more kitchen space if I'm to do actual cooking (which saves enough money to cover some of the higher rent cost anyway).

I think they are great for some people.

There are many people who really don't use their home for living. It is a space to sleep and bathe, and to possibly eat a meal or two, but otherwise they are out and about.

For those people a micro apartment can be a great thing.

There are other people who spend much time in their home. People who have lots of stuff and take up lots of space. Examples were given for things like pianos and instruments, or small computer labs, or loud music, or other activities.

For those people, a larger house and not an apartment is a better idea.

I love them. You can let them for about 1/3 the price of a "normal" apartment, but you can fit 6-8 of them onto the same surface (which is what dominates expenses).

Conforms well with the Rule of Acquisition No. 3.

These apartments are obviously not for anyone with a family or even cohabiting with a partner... It can barely hold one person. In a city of these kinds of apartments where do families live?

These apartments are obviously not for anyone with a family or even cohabiting with a partner... It can barely hold one person. In a city of these kinds of apartments where do families live?

A city of these kind of apartments doesn't really exist. They're suitable, depending on design, for 1 or maybe 2 people, but if you have more than that, then you would just find a larger place, and pay the extra rent.

But look into the Tiny House Movement if you're curious about this kind of thing. A large portion of them are designed by nut-jobs as fire based death traps, but some are actually very workable and logical housing for young couples and even small families. Really worth looking into and thinking about your own consumerism and spending habits.

A large portion of them are designed by nut-jobs as fire based death traps, but some are actually very workable and logical housing for young couples and even small families. Really worth looking into and thinking about your own consumerism and spending habits.

Not really. I can let a 80-90m² apartment for 900-950€, but I can let two 45m² apartments for 600-650€ each (1200-1300 total). Which is more favourable. Now of course, I could also let 8 apartments for 300€ each (= 2400 total).

Larger apartments are not consumerism, on the contrary. You spend less to get more. Which is, of course, not in the interest of your landlord...

I despite urban life, I despise neighbors, I despise proximity, and I really enjoy amplifiers of various types that produce very high sound levels. Micro apartments are a remarkable curiosity, but they're for idiots who think living in <X> city is worth sacrificing quality of life over.

Going by what you say about amplifiers, i'm pretty sure neighbors despise you too lol

A large portion of them are designed by nut-jobs as fire based death traps, but some are actually very workable and logical housing for young couples and even small families. Really worth looking into and thinking about your own consumerism and spending habits.

Not really. I can let a 80-90m² apartment for 900-950€, but I can let two 45m² apartments for 600-650€ each (1200-1300 total). Which is more favourable. Now of course, I could also let 8 apartments for 300€ each (= 2400 total).

Larger apartments are not consumerism, on the contrary. You spend less to get more. Which is, of course, not in the interest of your landlord...

And how much stuff can you put into one of those larger apartments? There is far more to the idea of living in a teeny tiny apartment than just not having a lot of space. The lifestyle also comes with owning far less material junk which you may not really care all that much about if you stopped to consider it.

Obviously not for everybody, but if that discourages people to accumulate more craps and buy less things, then it's a good thing.

I'd like about 50% more square footage all dedicated to the kitchen, but I'd be otherwise happy. My kitchen, bathroom, bed, and desk are the only things in my apartment that find any real use. Heck, my living room is a bare TV without even a sofa.

Here in San Jose even on the outskirts it costs $1500+ to rent a one-person apartment. If I could get one that size (~144 sq. ft.) for like $750 instead I'd be nuts over it.