What people say is the biggest benefit to communal living | World ...
2021年3月1日 · “Co-living is an opportunity to live in your own private place but still be part of a ‘family’,” says Jaimee Williams of SPACE10, IKEA’s “research and design lab” and co-organizer of a survey on perceptions of communal living. “Urbanization has led to unaffordable housing and, paradoxically, increasing loneliness.”
Co-operative housing: A greener and more sustainable way of living?
2020年7月20日 · Communal housing is an affordable way to live, where people come together in a shared community, to live greener and more sustainable lives. These communities exist all over the world. In the UK alone there are around 300 listed co-operative housing communities, with new ones springing up every year.
The old and the young live together in this Swedish housing …
2020年3月2日 · There are 31 two-room apartments at SällBo for retired people and 20 for people aged between 18 and 25. Half of those have been reserved for people who came to Sweden as unaccompanied child refugees and asylum-seekers. To encourage residents to mix, there's a shared living room with TV and balcony, a games room, a vegetable garden and more.
Four reasons to consider co-housing and housing cooperatives for ...
2018年8月24日 · There is evidence that communal living, and in particular eating regularly with others, can enhance well-being and may reduce feelings of loneliness, too. Some communities – such as the Older Womens Co-Housing project in north London – have been set up specifically as an alternative to living alone.
Social resilience in Japan can start at the dining table
2024年12月23日 · In Japan, the maximum amount companies can provide tax-free for employee meal subsidies has remained unchanged since it was set in 1984. Amid the rising cost of living, relaxing this limit is expected to support the promotion of "adult food education" through communal dining, one of the key objectives outlined in the petition.
9 lessons from the world's Blue Zones on living a long, healthy life
2017年6月26日 · Besides having a large percentage of people that live to 100, the aging population in these places remains active well into their 80 and 90s, and typically do not suffer the degenerative diseases common in most of the industrialized world.
Community land trusts: a solution to the global housing crisis
2021年6月25日 · This visionary group, the founders of New Communities Inc., determined that communal land ownership was a more secure form of tenure that, when combined with individual ownership of homes, could offer low-income people opportunities for financial security and cooperative management, while ensuring long-term housing affordability. This concept ...
5 of the world’s coolest ecovillages - The World Economic Forum
2022年9月13日 · The “living laboratory” EcoVillage — which received the Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements — thrives on place-based and low-carbon practices, and seeks to demonstrate the connections between the social, spiritual, economic, and ecological aspects of life.
What exactly is the sharing economy? | World Economic Forum
2017年12月13日 · Fast forward to 2017 and the reality is vastly different. Not only is the sharing economy in the news daily, it also has spurred a growing – and at times mind-boggling – list of related terms.
Cities need to rethink urban mobility as they plan for the future
2023年8月23日 · How cities tackle this issue and bolster urban mobility will determine their resilience in the face of pandemic-like challenges moving forward, and the quality of urban living in the future. It is essential that we understand the economic impact on productivity, health and well-being — and overall quality of life — of urban mobility.