This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context of wider social economic political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising co-housing and related housing forms. With focus on Denmark Sweden Hamburg and Barcelona the book presents general analyses of co-housing in these contexts and provides specific discussions of co-housing in relation to local government urban activism family life spatial logics and socio-ecology. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a broad range of social-scientific fields concerned with housing urban development and sustainability as well as to planners decision-makers and activists. |Contemporary Co-housing in Europe Towards Sustainable Cities? | Geography
