Intergenerational co-housing evolved as a self-organised collective housing form in Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s. From being a critique of traditional living forms the concept has today come into the mainstream. The PhD focus on the creation and motivations for this housing form, including what it is and how it is organised. In Denmark, many co-housing groups have created cohousing projects by buying land outside the cities, building, and moving out the city. This counter-urban trend gave inspiration to studying contemporary groups of future co-housers who wanted to create co-housing in the countryside, forming an alternative to the broader phenomenon of urbanisation. To explore the intergenerational co-housing movement and the change of it, existing communities were also studied, finding that it has evolved in three phases and from different types. Perceiving co-housing as a common, which empowers co-housers to take collective action to create new living conditions, the thesis determines that intergenerational co-housers create communities as a new social and sustainable life terrain. They do this together but from different approaches and motivations.

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