TY - JOUR

T1 - Promoting neighbourhood sharing: infrastructures of convenience and community

AU - Huber, Andreas

AU - Heinrichs, Harald

AU - Jäger-Erben, Melanie

N1 - Special Collection: Energy sufficiency in buildings and cities

PY - 2024/8/22

Y1 - 2024/8/22

N2 - Against the background of high levels of energy and resource demand in the residential sector, this paper investigates one potential way of making housing more sufficient: sharing at the neighbourhood level. Evidence from French and German case studies of ‘collaborative housing’ and ‘developer-driven neighbourhood sharing’ is used to identify two types of popular sharing practices: community-oriented and convenience-oriented. The first group of sharing practices is underpinned by creating, maintaining and experiencing social ties with neighbours. The second group of practices is guided by getting day-to-day tasks done smoothly and efficiently. To support the establishment of such sharing practices, some social and organisational measures are suggested. Thus, convenience-oriented sharing practices may be promoted by infrastructures and associated services that optimise the availability of sharing facilities and minimise temporal stretches and consumption work involved in practice performances. Community-oriented sharing practices may benefit from infrastructural arrangements that enable chance encounters, privilege community spaces over private areas and create welcoming spatial atmospheres.

AB - Against the background of high levels of energy and resource demand in the residential sector, this paper investigates one potential way of making housing more sufficient: sharing at the neighbourhood level. Evidence from French and German case studies of ‘collaborative housing’ and ‘developer-driven neighbourhood sharing’ is used to identify two types of popular sharing practices: community-oriented and convenience-oriented. The first group of sharing practices is underpinned by creating, maintaining and experiencing social ties with neighbours. The second group of practices is guided by getting day-to-day tasks done smoothly and efficiently. To support the establishment of such sharing practices, some social and organisational measures are suggested. Thus, convenience-oriented sharing practices may be promoted by infrastructures and associated services that optimise the availability of sharing facilities and minimise temporal stretches and consumption work involved in practice performances. Community-oriented sharing practices may benefit from infrastructural arrangements that enable chance encounters, privilege community spaces over private areas and create welcoming spatial atmospheres.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - Housing

KW - Lifestyles

KW - neighbourhood

KW - services

KW - Sharing

KW - Sufficiency

KW - sustainability

KW - France

KW - Germany

U2 - 10.5334/bc.442

DO - 10.5334/bc.442

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 5

SP - 349

EP - 367

JO - Buildings and Cities

JF - Buildings and Cities

SN - 2632-6655

IS - 1

ER -