Contemporary co housing in Europe : towards sustainable cities This book investigates co housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co housing in the context of wider social economic political and environmental developments. This volume fills a gap in the literature by contextualising co housing and related housing forms. With focus on Denmark Sweden Hamburg and Barcelona the book presents general analyses of co housing in these contexts and provides specific discussions of co housing in relation to local government urban activism family life spatial logics and socio ecology. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in a broad range of social scientific fields concerned with housing urban development and sustainability as well as to planners decision makers and activists