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  • Co-living penetrated the urban realm both as a housing format and a neologism with fluid meaning. The co-living concept was developed by various companies in the early 2010s claiming to provide a valuable alternative to flat living in highly competitive rental markets. As a real estate product, co-living consists of all-inclusive rental plans of furnished rooms connected to fully equipped communal areas, conceived both for short-term and long-term stays. The few realized buildings combine collective spaces as laundries and co-working spaces with rooms as small as nine square meters. This kind of layout explicitly targets the urban middle-classer willing to live simultaneously together and apart. Differently from other housing formats, co-living is promoted through the jargon of sharing economy more than one of real-estate agencies. The co-root is commonly explained in companies’ recurring website section "What's co-living?" as collective-living, convenient-living, and community-living. The emphasis on communitarian living echoes the semantics of co-housing. However, co-living communities differ radically from co-housing ones, based on a bottom-up initiative of inhabitants subscribing to a contract of cohabitation. In contrast, a co-living community is generated exclusively through economic accessibility. This article gives a critical insight into the mutated meanings of housing in the digital era by analysing co-living companies' narratives and their spatial counterpart in realized buildings. The evidence collected by co-living promotion contributes to addressing a broader shift in real estate towards emphasizing the experiential dimension of lifestyle over space and shelter as primary housing features. (xsd:string)
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  • 2022 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 2022 (xsd:gyear)
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  • 10.17645/up.v7i1.4805 ()
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  • 2183-7635 ()
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  • 1 (xsd:string)
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  • The Co-'s of Co-Living: How the Advertisement of Living Is Taking Over Housing Realities (xsd:string)
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  • In: Urban Planning, 7, 2022, 1, 296-304 (xsd:string)
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  • 7 (xsd:string)