Common Treasures Book Two

Housing Planning and Construction
This anthology of writing is grounded in the idea that community ownership of building projects makes for better building, empowers communities and ensures characterful neighbourhoods.

This anthology, thesecond in the Common Treasures project, developed from a series ofconversations between the architecture collective Assemble and the artsorganisation Common Ground. It takes as its premise the idea that approaches tohousing that are grounded in greater levels of community ownership, managementand maintenance have the potential to empower communities, overcome theopposition to local development and create conditions in which skilled ruralworkers are part of stronger local networks of industry and agriculture. Housingbuilt by, for and with the people who live in it makes characterfulneighbourhoods that last well, are able to be maintained by their residents andfacilitate investment in local labour, materials and skilled workmanship. Thecontributors to this anthology share their work to overcome the many obstaclesto this way of working, and offer a vision which is grounded, imaginative andhopeful.

Contributors: Rebecca Smith, Rob Hopkins and Frances Northrop, RuthMunns, Andrew Kirby, James Shorten, Loretta Bosence, Hana Loftus, BarbaraJones, Kim Squirrell, Ken Worpole, Tim Crabtree & Summer Islam.

Cover by Polytechnic Works.

Contributor: Amica Dall (Edited by), Giles Smith (Edited by), James Binning (Edited by), Sara Pereira (Edited by)

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