PUBLICATIONS AND DOWNLOADS
Own publications
Here you can download documents of your own making for free to help you delve deeper into this world
Eight episodes in a radio series, to learn about cooperative housing experiences and hear the advice of experts when starting a project.
The keys to the cooperative housing in right of use [1]
Guide to learn about this alternative model of housing and the characteristics of the model Sostre Cívic.
The aim of this guide is to explain the legal framework that operates and regulates the area of cooperative housing in right of use
We transform the environment [3]
Guide on the impact that cooperative housing projects have on the environment, with proposals so that it can respond to existing needs.
The construction and care of groups [4]
Guide on the process of establishing and consolidating the foundations for the care of groups, to prevent and reduce potential conflicts.
Guide where we analyze six cooperative housing experiences in different countries, to learn from them and get to know some references.
Care in the coexistence of elderly people [6]
Guide that collects the experiential perspective of the group Can 70 about an active old age with self-management of care and future needs.
Step-by-step guide to cooperative housing in rural worlds
All those aspects, difficulties or ways to discover that a cooperative housing project in the rural world needs to take into account
Report Llargavista Catalonia 2019
Report on the state of cooperative housing in right of use in Catalonia in 2019
Report Llargavista Barcelona 2020
Report on the state of cooperative housing in right of use in Barcelona in 2019
Comparative tables of constructive systems
Summary table graphically showing the comparative analysis between industrialized and conventional construction systems
Cooperative housing: participate, build, live
Guide to the "Echoes of Transformation" series, prepared by the ECOS cooperative group
Search and activation of heritage
How to get an asset to carry out a cooperative housing project?
Other publications and downloads
Llibres
CITY HALL OF BARCELONA. Housing Barcelona 2015-2023. Barcelona (2023).
CHAPIN, Ross. Pocket neighborhoods: creating small-scale communities in a large-scale world. Newtown, CT: Taunton Press (2011).
DURRETT, Charles. The senior cohousing handbook. Personal autonomy through the community. Madrid: Dykinson (2015).
DURRETT, Charles; MCCAMANT, Katherine. Creating cohousing. Building sustainable communities. New Society Publishers (2011).
HAGBERT, Pernilla; GUTZON LARSEN, Henrik; THÖRN, Håkan; WASHEDE, Cathryn. Contemporary Co-housing in Europe. Towards Sustainable Cities? London: Routledge (2020). [Barcelona: chapter 4]
PATTi, Daniella; POLYÁK, Levente. Funding the Cooperative City. (free, in English)
PONCE, Julio; MOLTÓ, Josep María. Right to housing and social function of property. New public policies in the framework of the public accommodation service. Pamplona: Editorial Aranzadi (2017).
TURMO, Raul. Andel: the Scandinavian model of access to housing. Barcelona: Jaume Bofill Foundation (2004).
Manuals
Tenant's Handbook. Barcelona: Let's do Sant Antoni (2017).
Urban Masoveria: methodological guide. Urban Planning and Housing Series 1, Tools Collection. Barcelona: Provincial Council of Barcelona (2017).
Alternative models of access and ownership of housing. Barcelona: Celobert SCCL, National Youth Council of Catalonia (2014).
Studies
MIRRALLES BUIL, Diego. The cooperatives d'habitation en cession d'usage à Barcelona. University of Lyon (2015).
Videos
Charles Durret and Katherine McCmant: Experiences of senior cohousing in the US. IMSERSO (2015). ENGLISH/CAST.
How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer). TED talks (2017) ENGLISH/sub CAST.
The first urban farmhouse project in Lleida. Lleida.com (2017).
First UK women's-only cohousing community arrives in north London. IBTimes UK (2017). ENGLISH
Days: An inevitable exodus? Gentrification, tourist pressure and rental bubble. Several capsules (2018).
Social Production of Habitat Platform. Urban World (2017). ENGLISH
Tertúlia: "Cohousing: an alternative model of access to housing". Discussion forum (2017).
Vivre sans argent, with Benjamin Lasage. Zango Media (2017) FR.