At Home with the Collective: A Report from the Future of Housing

By Alexander Eisenschmidt

The housing shortage is a global problem that cannot be resolved through market-driven models of home ownership. This book, therefore, postulates a radical shift from house to housing and from the individual to the collective. The reintroduction of the term "collective" is here understood as a mechanism to refocus housing as a community-building, solidarity-building, and city-building activity.

The book addresses the topic in four chapters--from alternative urban housing typologies and concepts of communal construction to historical models from which the current housing struggle can learn. The individual essays include examples from five different continents.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3035629390
• ISBN13: 9783035629392
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.7"