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At Home with the Collective

A Report from the Future of Housing
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2026
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The housing shortage is a global problem that cannot be resolved through market-driven models of home ownership. This book, therefore, postulates a radical shift from house to housing and from the individual to the collective. The reintroduction of the term "collective" is here understood as a mechanism to refocus housing as a community-building, solidarity-building, and city-building activity.

The book addresses the topic in four chapters—from alternative urban housing typologies and concepts of communal construction to historical models from which the current housing struggle can learn. The individual essays include examples from five different continents.

  • Kollektiver Wohnungsbau boomt weltweit
  • Essays von bekannten Autor*innen zum Thema kollektives Wohnen
  • Modelle zum partizipativem Wohnbau

Author / Editor information

Alexander Eisenschmidt, Professor of Architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    An Introduction in Support of Collective Housing

    7
    Alexander Eisenschmidt
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  • Part 1 Type & Urbanism
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    Notes on Commoning: From Domestic Space to the City

    21
    Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
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    Catalyzing Collectives: Anticipatory Housing Types for the Shared City

    45
    Neeraj Bhatia and Dan Spiegel
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    Mini, Hybrid, and Collective: Alternative Urban Dwelling in Chinese Megacities

    65
    Yan Meng and Yi Wei Chen
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    (Trans)forming Habitat: The Impact of Colonial and Postcolonial Housing Policies in Morocco

    83
    Lahbib El Moumni
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  • Part 2 Home & Program
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    In Search of a Collective Housing Typology in Berlin and Beyond

    103
    Verena von Beckerath
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    Tehran's Collective Domesticities of Displacement

    121
    Golnar Abbasi
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    Sharing Between Households: From Rationalization to Community in Danish Housing

    139
    Michael Asgaard Andersen
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  • Part 3 Property & Value
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    Housing Cooperatives in Spain: Building an Infrastructure for Sustainable Living

    157
    Cristina Gamboa
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    An Argument for Collective Housing and Collective Culture

    173
    Hilary Sample
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    Renovate, Don't Speculate: Following a Conversation on b+ and HouseEurope!

    183
    Arno Brandlhuber and Alexander Eisenschmidt
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    Learning from the Paradoxes of US Public Housing: The Case of Millers River

    195
    Susanne Schindler and Chris Moyer
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  • Part 4 Exchange & Community
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    Cooperative Housing in Uruguay: Collective Home Ownership and Assisted Self-Management

    209
    Valeria Esteves and Michael Pfister
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    Mutirão: Brazilian Experiments in Collective Construction

    223
    Camila Onia and Camila Onia
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    Housing and the Struggle for Social Reproduction in Mexico

    237
    Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco
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    Appendix Contributors

    257
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    Acknowledgements

    260
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    Illustration Credits

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    Imprint

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 2, 2026
eBook ISBN:
9783035629408
Hardcover published on:
March 2, 2026
Hardcover ISBN:
9783035629392
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
272
Coloured Illustrations:
100
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035629408
eBook ISBN: 9783035629408
Hardcover ISBN: 9783035629392
Keywords for this book
Collective living; Co-housing; Incremental building; housing crisis; housing shortage; community living
Audience(s) for this book
Architekten, Stadtplaner, Soziologen
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