Introduction to the special issue: Towards a long-term perspective of self-managed collaborative housing initiatives

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Acknowledgements

The editor is grateful to Le Studium for the fellowship that enabled the conference; and to the contributors to this publication, for the inspiring and critical exchange on the scope and impact of the contemporary (re-) emergence of co-housing in Europe. Special thanks to Melissa Fernandez and Helen Jarvis for assistance on the English-language checks.

Notes

1. Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies http://www.lestudium-ias.com/#!le-studium/cjg9

2. Proceedings available at http://alter-prop.crevilles-dev.org/ressources/items/show/1267.

3. Frequent reference is made, for example, to Dick Vestbro’s overview: Living Together – Co-Housing Ideas and Realities around the World. Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology division of urban studies in collaboration with Kollektivhus NU, 2010.

4. Represented for example by the national branch in the United Kingdom: http://www.cohousing.org.uk/

5. This approach is meanwhile being put into practice through a seminar series started in 2014: http://www.cohousing.org.uk/resource/966/esrc-seminar-series-collaborative-housing-and-community-resilience.