Documentation and resources on Social Housing Production

At your disposal : data or resources on PSH and participative housing

Pathways to urban and territorial equality
GOLD VI de UCLG, 2022

The Urban Commons – Puerto Rico, the CLT Gain

Pierre Arnold, urban planner, project manager at urbaMonde France, presents the genesis of the community land trust of Caño Martín Peña, in Puerto Rico. Article published in the Bulletin des professionnels de AdP-Villes en développement, May 2022 – N°115.

Study on affordable and cooperative housing through the example of Cité FSH

An urbaMonde study, 2021-2022

Study on access to land and financing for participatory housing projects

A study by urbaMonde via the CoHabitat Network, 2021

Study on affordable housing in Africa

A study by urbaMonde and urbaSEN, 2020-2021

Collaborative housing: a concrete response to the COVID-19 pandemic

A study by urbaMonde via the CoHabitat Network, 2020-2021

URBAN FUTURES’ Co-designing the city: critical analysis and international experiences In spring 2021, students from the University of Geneva (Master’s degrees in “Innovation, Human Development and Sustainability”, “Territorial Development” and “African Studies”) took part in the Urban Futures workshop, dedicated to innovative urban planning. Here is their report.

Eco-feminist contributions to a sustainable transition in the production and social management of housing

This Master’s thesis by Maira Valdiviezo, an intern at urbaMonde, documents sustainable construction alternatives within participatory housing from a gender perspective, 2020.

L’architecture de terre dans les coopératives d’habitation uruguayennes

Cette étude réalisée par Nina Beatriz Pompeu Quintas, chef de projet à urbaMonde, vise à étudier les perceptions et les obstacles liés à l’utilisation de l’architecture de terre dans les coopératives d’habitation d’aide mutuelle en Uruguay et à évaluer comment cette option pourrait être mise en œuvre de manière viable dans de tels collectifs.

Publication “Production sociale de l’habitat

Published by urbaMonde; documents exemplary initiatives from civil society, through articles written in a participatory manner with representatives of the projects in question.

Printed brochures can be ordered by e-mail.

Funding the Cooperative City Community Finance and the Economy of Civic Spaces Cooperative City Books, 2017.

Housing Cooperatives building spaces of resistance and transformation in Mexico City
Exploring the Social Economy and the Social Production of Housing : Housing Cooperatives building spaces of resistance and transformation in Mexico City, by Bea Varnai, consultant at urbaMonde France. Geneva, 2015.

The publication “El Camino Posible – Producción Social del Hábitat en América Latina” is the collective work of seventeen Latin American real estate developers.

Confrontation de la Production Architecturale des années 1920-30-40 avec les années 1950-60-70 EAUG diploma thesis by Marie Baillif, René Hebler, Georges Dubouchet, Sandro Rossetti and Suzanne Lerch (urbaMonde Suisse committee member).