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The research group Living in Community was formed in 1976...

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Ingela Blomberg och Kerstin Kärnekull/Bo i Gemenskap, Bygga seniorboende tillsammans - en handbok. Svensk Byggtjänst 2013. (only in Swedish)
A handbook for all who look for a new way of living, a cohousing with private apartments and common spaces. How to begin? Are there examples to learn from? How to work together? With whom can one cooperate and how to reach the goal, to live in a senior cohousing?

Dick Urban Vestbro (red), Kerstin Kärnekull, Inga-Lisa Sangregorio m fl, Living together - Cohousing Ideas and Realities Around the World, Proceedings from the international collaborative housing conference in Stockholm 5-9 May 2010, KTH Regional Planering och Kollektivhus Nu 2010.

Presentations and work shops from the first international collaborative housing conference in Stockholm 2010.

Inga-Lisa Sangregorio, Collaborative Housing in Sweden, T 1:2000 The Swedish Council for Building Research, 2000.
This booklet presents the principles of collaborative housing and gives examples of how the ideas have turned out in practice. Some of the people who have chosen this way of living tell us why. Highly relevant 2015!

Michael LaFond (red), Cohousing Cultures. Handbook for self-organized, community-oriented and sustainable housing, id22 : Institute for Creative Sustainability : experimentcity, jovis Verlag GmbH Berlin 2012

Nine very different examples of cohousing cultures in practise, among them Färdknäppen in Stockholm.