Contemporary co-housing in Europe :  towards sustainable cities? / 
edited by Pernilla Hagbert, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Håkan Thörn, and Cathrin Wasshede. 
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<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780429450174 0429450176 9780429832871 0429832877 9780429832895 0429832893 9780429832888 0429832885 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Housing, Cooperative--Europe, Western.<br/>City planning--Europe, Western.<br/>Cities and towns--Growth.--Europe, Western<br/>SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD7287.72.E85 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>344/.1094