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The social logic of...
The social logic of space: community and detachment
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Caldenby, Claes (author)
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Hagbert, Pernilla, 1986 (author)
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- Wasshede, Cathrin, 1967 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap,Department of Sociology and Work Science
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- 2019-11-18
- 2019
- English.
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In: Contemporary Co-housing in Europe Towards Sustainable Cities? Hagbert, P., Larsen, H. G., Thörn, H. and Wasshede, C. (eds.). - London : Routledge. - 9780429450174 ; , s. 163-182
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- This chapter argues that co-housing is a spatial organization that over a long time has shown some important characteristics, and that there is what could be called a ’social logic of space’ in co-housing. Two processes in the creation of ’commitment’ to a collective are identified: on the one hand, ’detaching’ from the surrounding context and, on the other hand, ’attaching’ to the collective. The early predecessors of co-housing were all complex internal spatial organizations detached from the urban context and placed as ’buildings in the park’. Co-housing projects from the 1970s and onwards have in turn been described as coming in two ’models’: the ’Danish’ cluster of low-rise houses and the ’Swedish’ high-rise multi-family building. The Danish model is quite widespread in the Anglo-Saxon world. Using some central concepts in Hillier and Hanson’s space syntax, it will here be questioned whether these seemingly different two models of co-housing are really spatially different as far as ‘internal’ community and ‘external’ detachment is concerned. The chapter ends with a discussion of how co-housing can deal dialectically with the potentially vicious circle between ‘internal’ community and ‘external’ detachment.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Konst -- Arkitektur (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Arts -- Architecture (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Co-housing
- commitment
- detachment
- space
- space syntax
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- vet (subject category)
- kap (subject category)
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