Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Models of Shared Living: Context and Overview / Habraken, N. John -- Transitions between Public and Private / Häussermann, Hartmut -- Motives that Drive Shared Living / Ostrom, Elinor -- Sharing Based on Economic Intentions -- Efficiency and Rationalization: Sharing Based on Economic Intentions / Korn, Arthur -- Changing Organizational Structures of Living / Bertels, Lothar -- The Economics of Shared Housing / Scanlon, Kathleen -- The Large Housing Complexes of the Utopian Socialists / Engels, Friedrich -- Men's and Women's Hostels and Boarding Houses for Urban Nomads / Scharoun, Hans -- Central-Kitchen Houses as a Model of Reform / Myrdal, Alva -- Collective Housing in the Soviet Union -- Sharing Based on Political Intentions -- Progress and Stability: Sharing Based on Political Intentions / Mühlestein, Erwin -- The Diversity of Collective Living Spaces and Options for Use / Czech, Hermann -- The City and Collective Living: An Attempt at Rapprochement in a Conflicted Relationship / Eisinger, Habil Angelus -- Garden Cities and Courtyard Apartment Buildings: Visions of Social Reform / Uhlig, Günter -- Community Settlements as Staged Neighborhoods / Stahl, Gisela -- Cooperative Living and the Opening of Living Spaces / Kraft, Reinhart -- Collective Housing in the German Democratic Republic -- Sharing Based on Social Intentions -- Sufficiency and Participation: Sharing Based on Social Intentions / Ring, Kristien -- Changing Living Spaces Due to Changing Lifestyles / Strohm, David -- Differentiation Processes in European Housing Markets in the 21st Century / Breckner, Ingrid -- Housing and Culture Projects as an Expression of Community / Schmid, Christian -- Community Households and Cluster Apartments with Services / Hofer, Andreas -- Co-Living as Interconnected and Decentralized Housing / Kuhnert, Nikolaus -- Communal Households and Squatting -- Extending Individuality / Sack, Gudrun -- Four Levels of Action: A Perspective / Eisen, Markus -- Index -- Reference books, monographs -- Studies and Research -- Articles and Magazines -- Biographies -- Acknowledgments -- Imprint

The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases. The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their origins until today; she illustrates how everyday shared living and the degrees of privacy in housing are practiced in Europe. Owing to its comprehensive documentation, the analysis of typologies, layout plans, and user and expert interviews, the book can also be considered to be a lexicon or handbook on communal living. A detailed overview that is unique in this form