TY - JOUR A1 - Huber, Andreas A1 - Heinrichs, Harald A1 - Jaeger-Erben, Melanie T1 - Promoting neighbourhood sharing : infrastructures of convenience and community JF - Buildings & Cities N2 - Against the background of high levels of energy and resource demand in the residential sector, this paper investigates one potential way of making housing more sufficient: sharing at the neighbourhood level. Evidence from French and German case studies of ‘collaborative housing’ and ‘developer-driven neighbourhood sharing’ is used to identify two types of popular sharing practices: community-oriented and convenience-oriented. The first group of sharing practices is underpinned by creating, maintaining and experiencing social ties with neighbours. The second group of practices is guided by getting day-today tasks done smoothly and efficiently. To support the establishment of such sharing practices, some social and organisational measures are suggested. Thus, convenience-oriented sharing practices may be promoted by infrastructures and associated services that optimise the availability of sharing facilities and minimise temporal stretches and consumption work involved in practice performances. Community-oriented sharing practices may benefit from infrastructural arrangements that enable chance encounters, privilege community spaces over private areas and create welcoming spatial atmospheres. KW - Housing KW - Sustainability KW - Neighbourhood KW - Sharing KW - Sufficiency KW - Wohnen KW - Nachbarschaft KW - Suffizienz KW - Nachhaltigkeit Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.442 SN - 2632-6655 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 349 EP - 367 PB - Ubiquity Press CY - London ER -