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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Barcelona: Housing crisis and urban activism
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 - 9780429450174 ; , s. 74-93
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Co-housing is an emerging housing form in Spain, where many pioneering initiatives are found in Catalonia and the Barcelona area. Using the La Borda project as a recurring illustration, but also drawing on other examples and developments, the chapter seeks to contextualize this nascent but noticeable interest in co-housing in and around Barcelona. Starting at the scale of the crisis-ridden Spanish housing system, the chapter gradually zooms in on co-housing at the scale of Catalonia, Barcelona, neighbourhoods and, eventually, the La Borda project. While still embryonic, co-housing activism in the Barcelona area is generally characterized by a high degree of urban-political commitment and organization, and the chapter suggests that emerging experiences in Barcelona can serve as inspiration for those who want co-housing to evolve into a more sustainable housing form.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Denmark: Anti-urbanism and segregation
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9780429450174 - 9781138325913 ; , s. 23-37
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- Scheller, David, et al.
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Urban activism and co-housing
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 - 9780429450174 ; , s. 120-139
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter looks at the interrelations and dynamics between urban activism and the politics of co-housing. Drawing on empirical material from Hamburg and Barcelona, it explores the socio-political context of co-housing in the interplay of bottom-up organizing and top-down governance. With particular attention to squatting and related questions of post-autonomous urban activism, this investigation is structured according to three issues: relations to the state; horizontal organizing; and direct actions. This includes questions around the legalization of squatted houses, and intersections with broader movements. On this basis, the chapter discusses what is termed the dialectics of the politics of co-housing. This dynamic relation between grassroots organizing and top-down governance intersects in different political aspirations for co-housing – and eventually in what is understood as sustainable urban development. On the one hand, squatting and urban activism follow a political logic of empowerment, self-management, mutual self-help and solidarity. On the other hand, local city governments impose a political logic of urban governance, often with the aim of regulation, control, marketization and co-optation. This dialectic plays out differently in Hamburg and Barcelona, but the underlying contradictory political logics remain similar.
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- Thörn, Håkan, et al.
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Constraints and possibilities for co-housing to address contemporary urban and ecological crises : A conclusion
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe : Towards Sustainable Cities? - Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 - 9780429450174 ; , s. 202-213
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this conclusion we argue that, while we have demonstrated in this book that definitions of co-housing as well as co-housing practices in different European countries vary, there are some general lessons to be learned for anyone interested in understanding or practising co-housing in the context of advanced capitalist societies. This conclusion has three parts: First, we address the questions asked in the introduction regarding the relation between contemporary co-housing ideas and practices and the discourse on sustainable urban development. Second, we address the questions asked in the introduction regarding the two key dimensions of co-housing, community and autonomy, as understood in relation to the broader contexts of civil society and urban governance. Third, we will conclude by paying particular attention to the constraints on co-housing produced by contemporary urban development regimes as well as the potentials of co-housing to contribute towards more just and ecologically sustainable cities.
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- Hagbert, Pernilla, Dr, 1986-, et al.
(författare)
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Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities?
- 2020
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- 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.
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- Thörn, Håkan, 1961, et al.
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Constraints and possibilities for co-housing to address contemporary urban and ecological crises: A conclusion
- 2019
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe: Towards Sustainable Cities? Edited ByPernilla Hagbert, Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Håkan Thörn, Cathrin Wasshede. - London : Routledge. - 9781138325913 ; , s. 202-213
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- co-housing, sustainable urban development, governance, gentrification, civil society, ecological sustainability, social sustainability
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- Thörn, Håkan, et al.
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Co-housing, sustainable urban development and governance : An introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe Towards Sustainable Cities?. - London : Routledge. ; , s. 1-20, s. 1-19
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Co-housing is often lauded as an alternative housing form offering a more socially, ecologically and economically sustainable way of living. This book takes its departure in the need for a critical exploration of co-housing in the context of sustainable urban development, beyond the normative approach that often characterizes co-housing research. Based on a four-year research project involving in-depth studies of co-housing in and around major cities in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Spain, the empirical and theoretical contributions presented in the book explore how co-housing developments can be understood and contextualized in urban sustainability discourses and policies in Europe today. The introductory chapter outlines the analytical and contextual framework of the book. After a brief description of the definitions used and the research approach taken, the chapter introduces a discussion on the discourse of sustainable development, to frame the ‘sustainability problems’ that co-housing is perceived to solve. Analytically, it is found relevant to distinguish between two contextual dimensions of co-housing: (1) urban civil society; and (2) urban governance. These contextual dimensions, in turn, are argued to relate to two key facets of co-housing, as recurring themes throughout the book: revolving around forms of community, and forms of autonomy.
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- Carter, Helen, et al.
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A planning palimpsest: neoliberal planning in a welfare state tradition
- 2015
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Ingår i: European Journal of Spatial Development. - 1650-9544. ; :58, s. 1-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we analyse the evolution and transformation of Danish spatial planning from its tentative origins in liberalist politics, through its rise as a central feature of the welfare state project, to its more recent entrepreneurial forms in a context of neoliberalisation. The article demonstrates how transformations of Danish spatial planning discourses and practices must be understood in context of previous discourses and practices sedimented as layers of meaning and materiality through time and over space. These layers do not completely overlay one another, but present a palimpsest saturated with contradictions as well as possibilities. We propose the notion of the ‘planning palimpsest’ as a helpful metaphor for drawing attention to the historical-geographical characteristics of planning discourses and practices.
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- Larsen, Henrik Gutzon, et al.
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Introduction: The Housing Question revisited
- 2016
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Ingår i: ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. - 1492-9732. ; 15:3, s. 580-589
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