Promoting neighbourhood sharing: infrastructures of convenience and community
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In: Buildings and Cities, Vol. 5, No. 1, 22.08.2024, p. 349-367.
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T1 - Promoting neighbourhood sharing: infrastructures of convenience and community
AU - Huber, Andreas
AU - Heinrichs, Harald
AU - Jäger-Erben, Melanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s).
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
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85216382002&partnerID=8YFLogxK
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 -