Small is Necessary

Anitra Nelson is Associate Professor in the Centre for Urban Research School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Australia. She is the author of Marx's Concept of Money: The God of Commodities (Routledge, 1999), and she co-edited Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (Pluto, 2011), Housing for Degrowth (Routledge, 2018) and is the author of Small is Necessary (Pluto, 2018).

• List of Figures, Tables and BoxesAbbreviationsGlossaryAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Less is More: Living Closely on a Finite PlanetPart I: Compact Urban Housing2. Once We Were Small: Traditional and Contemporary Homes 3. Apartment Living in Cities4. Apartment Household Practices and AffordabilityPart II: Eco-Cohousing and Ecovillages5. From Sharing a House to Eco-cohousing 6. Ecovillages: Sustainability and System Change Part III: Futures: Scaling Up, Shared Landscapes, Shared Livelihoods7. ‘Will You Dance With Us?’ Governments and Collaborative Housing8. ‘To Market, To Market’: Eco-collaborative Housing for Sale9. Grassroots Sustainability, Sociality and GovernanceConclusion10. Small is Necessary and, with Sharing, FeasibleAppendix: Key Sources and LinksNotesIndex

'With great insight, Anitra Nelson shows how collaborative housing is emerging across the world to re-ignite the 'Small is Beautiful' spirit of E.F. Schumacher. This is a wonderful guide featuring inspiring examples for those who want to use shared eco-housing to tackle the challenges ahead'