Essays about: "collective housing"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 55 essays containing the words collective housing.

  1. 11. A Female-Friendly Community in Husby

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Yanshao Gu; [2022]
    Keywords : feminism; residential building; public; visible; safety; kitchen;

    Abstract : Referring from Swedish collective housing, this project is a extension from Beate Holmbakk's project Four Houses, Four women to a community for five typical women. The aim is to study if architecture can be an intervention of diffrent women identities in households situation when it is combined with the urban context of a specific site. READ MORE

  3. 12. Alternative Housing Projects “Beyond Market and State” : On the In(ter)dependence of Housing Commons in Germany

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Nora Bittmann; [2022]
    Keywords : housing commons; autonomy; collective ownership; state;

    Abstract : In this paper the viability of housing commons as an alternative to commercial and public housing provision is examined. With rising financial burdens for renters in German cities over the past ten years, and state and market failing to provide affordable and accessible housing, claims to (re)communalize and decommodify housing are on the rise. READ MORE

  4. 13. Intergenerational Interdependence : Addressing Social Isolation Through Spatial Strategies within the Domestic Realm

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Linnea Rudholm; [2022]
    Keywords : elderly care; social isolation; intergenerational; interdependence; collective housing;

    Abstract : According to the United Nations, by the year of 2050, 16% ofthe world’s population will be over the age of 65, that is one in six people.¹ Considering this, there is more need than ever to bridge the generation gap. READ MORE

  5. 14. Allbolagen Revisited: a Tenants' Union in a Changing (de)political Landscape : A Neoliberal Delusion or a Democratic Imaginary?

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Lisa Kolarby; [2022]
    Keywords : Housing policy; public housing; neoliberalism; economisation; tenants; democracy;

    Abstract : The context of the rental housing market in Sweden has changed substantially in recent decades as neoliberal housing policies have been introduced. One prominent example is the 2011 “Allbolagen” reform that reframed the conditions of the public housing sector whilst destabilising the collective bargaining system for rent-setting. READ MORE

  6. 15. What Kind of Home Makes a ‘Good Life’? A critical exploration of the Swedish kollektivhus to support a degrowth transition

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Charlotte Estey; [2021]
    Keywords : degrowth; ecological modernization; kollektivhus; co-housing; narratives; Stockholm; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Under the capitalist growth imperative, mainstream housing is connected to high social and ecological consequences. In light of the need for an alternative approach to housing, my thesis adopts a degrowth perspective to critically explore an alternative housing model: the Swedish kollektivhus (‘collective house’; co-housing). READ MORE