1st Edition

The re-emergence of co-housing in Europe

Edited By Lidewij Tummers Copyright 2016
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Across Europe, the number of co-housing initiatives is growing, and they are increasingly receiving attention from administrators and professionals who hold high expectations for urban liveability. Is co-housing a marginal idealist phenomenon, or the urban middle class’ answer to the current housing crisis? And has the development of theoretical insight and research kept up with the actual... Read more

Introduction: Towards a long-term perspective of self-managed collaborative housing initiatives Lidewij Tummers

1. Diversity of self-managed co-housing initiatives in France Sabrina Bresson and Sylvette Denèfle

2. Housing cooperatives in Poland: The origins of a deadlock Lydia Coudroy de Lille

3. Self-managed co-housing in the context of an ageing population in Europe Anne Labit

4. The potential of cohousing for rural Austria Heidrun Wankiewicz

5. Understanding co-housing from a planning perspective: why and how? Lidewij Tummers

6. German co-housing: an opportunity for municipalities to foster socially inclusive urban development? Christiane Droste

7. Towards a deeper understanding of the social architecture of co-housing: evidence from the UK, USA and Australia Helen Jarvis

8. Development of new cohousing: lessons from a London scheme for the over-50s Kath Scanlon and Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia

Biography

Lidewij Tummers is a part-time researcher and tutor for Spatial Planning and Strategy in the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Environment, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands. Her research and publications concern participatory design processes, spatial criteria for inclusive design, energy transition, and a gendered perspective of spatial planning.