Overview
- Presents 50 case studies of co-housing projects all over the world
- Shows how co-housing can serve as a tool to promote social and urban sustainability
- Reviews the most famous typologies of shared living in different parts of the world across human history
- Situates co-housing as a microscale response to macroscale challenges posed by environmental degradation and the decline of communitarian ways of living
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents 50 case studies of contemporary co-housing projects spread all over the world to show how communities of shared living have become a global phenomenon that can serve as a tool to promote social and urban sustainability. By presenting evidence that shared housing experiences are capable of revitalizing sterile urban fabrics and promoting social sustainable practices, the volume situates co-housing experiences as microscale responses to the macroscale challenges posed by environmental degradation and the decline of communitarian ways of living.
The volume also reviews the most famous typologies of shared living in different parts of the world across human history. By analyzing historical experiences in different regions of Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania, the author shows that living together is part of a historical culture of sharing that is being rediscovered all over the world by people who activate public spaces, work in shared offices or live in contractual communities.
The Co-Housing Phenomenon – Environmental Alliance in Times of Changes will be of interest to both professionals and scholars involved in urban design, urban planning and architecture, especially those in the field of sustainable urbanism. It will also be a valuable resource for public agents and civil society organizations dealing with housing, social, environmental and sustainability policies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
with a research on communities and contemporary relationship between Humanity and Environment. For his research
activities on territorial phenomena, he is member of the International Society of Urban Health (ISUH) and of the
laboratory China Lab (China architecture urban studies Lab), which is an international research network operative
mainly between Italy and China.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Co-Housing Phenomenon
Book Subtitle: Environmental Alliance in Times of Changes
Authors: Emanuele Giorgi
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37097-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37096-1Published: 29 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37099-2Published: 29 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37097-8Published: 28 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 269
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 188 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography