Built Environment
housing

Co-Housing in the Making

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Volume 38 – Number 3
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This issue focuses on the nature of co-housing and what it has to offer to society today. Can co-housing develop from the margins into something able to challenge the prevailing ways of distributing housing and can it create new social practices within cities?

Guest editor: Karin Krokfors
18 Mar 2014

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This issue focuses on the nature of co-housing and what it has to offer to society today. Can co-housing develop from the margins into something able to challenge the prevailing ways of distributing housing and can it create new social practices within cities?
 
Karin Krokfors and her contributors examine the collaborative, communal and collective aspects of cohousing from different national, political and social perspectives. Throughout there is an emphasis on the relationship between living and the built environment.
 

Contents

  • Co-Housing in the Making
    Karin Krokfors
  • Design for Gender Equality: The History of Co-Housing Ideas and Realities
    Dick Urban Vestbro and Liisa Horelli
  • Casa Malta: A Case Study of a Contemporary Co-Housing Project in Helsinki
    Salla Korpela
  • Elder Co-Housing in the United States: Three Case Studies
    Anne P. Glass
  • Seeding Community: Collaborative Housing as a Strategy for Social and Neighbourhood Repair
    Dorit Fromm
  • The Development of Co-Housing Initiatives in Germany
    Peter Ache and Micha Fedrowitz
  • Sustainable Living and Co-Housing: Evidence from a Case Study of Eco-Villages
    Bella Marckmann, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen and Toke Haunstrup Christensen
  • Towards Dialectic Utopias: Links and Disjunctions between Collaborative Housing and Squatt ing in the Netherlands
    Guillermo Delgado