Penny Lewis is Programme Lead for the University of Dundee and Wuhan University Architectural Studies Programme, a job which involves teaching in China. From 1999 to 2007 she was editor of Prospect, the Scottish architecture magazine and a regular contributor to national papers and architectural journals. Her PhD on The impact of ecological thought on architectural theory from 1968 remains an ongoing research interest alongside work on the city.Lorens Holm is Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee, where he runs the design research unit rooms+cities. His written work focuses on reconciling Lacanian thought on subjectivity with contemporary architectural/urban practice. Publications include Brunelleschi Lacan Le Corbusier (2010) and, with John Hendrix, Architecture and the Unconscious (2016). His papers have appeared in Architecture and Culture, ARQ, Journal of Architecture, Perspecta, Critical Quarterly, Architecture Theory Review, and Assemblage.Sandra Costa Santos is an architect and academic with research in the fields of architectural theory and architectural design with a particular interest in housing and the home. She is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee.

• Part I: Contradictions in a common world 1. Introduction 2. A tale of two villages: Jane Jacobs, Marshall McLuhan and their visions of collective life 3. Interview with Reinier de Graaf 4. Neofeudalism: The end of capitalism? 5. Alternative models of tenure: Recovering the radical proposal of collective housing Part II: New geography and the planners 6. A proprietary polis: Silicon Valley architecture and collective life 7. Hyper-gentrification and the urbanisation of suburbia 8. The dubious high street: Distinctiveness, gentrification and social value 9. Zero-institution culture Part III: Authority 10. Authorship and political will in Aldo Rossi’s theory of architecture 11. The heterotopias of Tafuri and Teyssot: Between language and discipline 12. Interruptions: A form of questionable fidelity Part IV: The welfare state 13. Constructed landscapes for collective recreation: Victor Bourgeois’s open-air projects in Belgium 14. Vienna’s Hofe: How housing builds the collective 15. Learning from Loutraki: Thermalism, hydrochemistry and the architectures of collective wellness 16. BiG: Living and working together Part V: Autonomy and organisation 17. Design precepts for autonomy: A case study of Kelvin Hall, Glasgow 18. Calcutta, India: Dover Lane – a cosmo-ecological collective life of Indian modernity 19. The city of ragpickers: Shaping a faithful collective life during les trente glorieuses 20. Visions of Ecotopia Part VI: Practice and life 21. Intraventions in flux: Towards a modal spatial practice that moves and cares 22. Ethics of open types 23. The Age of Ecology in the UK 24. Opinions – or, from dialogue to conversation 25. Epilogue The Wally Close Tenement: The collective close

Penny Lewis is Programme Lead for the University of Dundee and Wuhan University Architectural Studies Programme, a job which involves teaching in China. From 1999 to 2007 she was editor of Prospect, the Scottish architecture magazine and a regular contributor to national papers and architectural journals. Her PhD on The impact of ecological thought on architectural theory from 1968 remains an ongoing research interest alongside work on the city.Lorens Holm is Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee, where he runs the design research unit rooms+cities. His written work focuses on reconciling Lacanian thought on subjectivity with contemporary architectural/urban practice. Publications include Brunelleschi Lacan Le Corbusier (2010) and, with John Hendrix, Architecture and the Unconscious (2016). His papers have appeared in Architecture and Culture, ARQ, Journal of Architecture, Perspecta, Critical Quarterly, Architecture Theory Review, and Assemblage.Sandra Costa Santos is an architect and academic with research in the fields of architectural theory and architectural design with a particular interest in housing and the home. She is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee.

• Part I: Contradictions in a common world 1. Introduction 2. A tale of two villages: Jane Jacobs, Marshall McLuhan and their visions of collective life 3. Interview with Reinier de Graaf 4. Neofeudalism: The end of capitalism? 5. Alternative models of tenure: Recovering the radical proposal of collective housing Part II: New geography and the planners 6. A proprietary polis: Silicon Valley architecture and collective life 7. Hyper-gentrification and the urbanisation of suburbia 8. The dubious high street: Distinctiveness, gentrification and social value 9. Zero-institution culture Part III: Authority 10. Authorship and political will in Aldo Rossi’s theory of architecture 11. The heterotopias of Tafuri and Teyssot: Between language and discipline 12. Interruptions: A form of questionable fidelity Part IV: The welfare state 13. Constructed landscapes for collective recreation: Victor Bourgeois’s open-air projects in Belgium 14. Vienna’s Hofe: How housing builds the collective 15. Learning from Loutraki: Thermalism, hydrochemistry and the architectures of collective wellness 16. BiG: Living and working together Part V: Autonomy and organisation 17. Design precepts for autonomy: A case study of Kelvin Hall, Glasgow 18. Calcutta, India: Dover Lane – a cosmo-ecological collective life of Indian modernity 19. The city of ragpickers: Shaping a faithful collective life during les trente glorieuses 20. Visions of Ecotopia Part VI: Practice and life 21. Intraventions in flux: Towards a modal spatial practice that moves and cares 22. Ethics of open types 23. The Age of Ecology in the UK 24. Opinions – or, from dialogue to conversation 25. Epilogue The Wally Close Tenement: The collective close

Penny Lewis is Programme Lead for the University of Dundee and Wuhan University Architectural Studies Programme, a job which involves teaching in China. From 1999 to 2007 she was editor of Prospect, the Scottish architecture magazine and a regular contributor to national papers and architectural journals. Her PhD on The impact of ecological thought on architectural theory from 1968 remains an ongoing research interest alongside work on the city.Lorens Holm is Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee, where he runs the design research unit rooms+cities. His written work focuses on reconciling Lacanian thought on subjectivity with contemporary architectural/urban practice. Publications include Brunelleschi Lacan Le Corbusier (2010) and, with John Hendrix, Architecture and the Unconscious (2016). His papers have appeared in Architecture and Culture, ARQ, Journal of Architecture, Perspecta, Critical Quarterly, Architecture Theory Review, and Assemblage.Sandra Costa Santos is an architect and academic with research in the fields of architectural theory and architectural design with a particular interest in housing and the home. She is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee.

• Part I: Contradictions in a common world 1. Introduction 2. A tale of two villages: Jane Jacobs, Marshall McLuhan and their visions of collective life 3. Interview with Reinier de Graaf 4. Neofeudalism: The end of capitalism? 5. Alternative models of tenure: Recovering the radical proposal of collective housing Part II: New geography and the planners 6. A proprietary polis: Silicon Valley architecture and collective life 7. Hyper-gentrification and the urbanisation of suburbia 8. The dubious high street: Distinctiveness, gentrification and social value 9. Zero-institution culture Part III: Authority 10. Authorship and political will in Aldo Rossi’s theory of architecture 11. The heterotopias of Tafuri and Teyssot: Between language and discipline 12. Interruptions: A form of questionable fidelity Part IV: The welfare state 13. Constructed landscapes for collective recreation: Victor Bourgeois’s open-air projects in Belgium 14. Vienna’s Hofe: How housing builds the collective 15. Learning from Loutraki: Thermalism, hydrochemistry and the architectures of collective wellness 16. BiG: Living and working together Part V: Autonomy and organisation 17. Design precepts for autonomy: A case study of Kelvin Hall, Glasgow 18. Calcutta, India: Dover Lane – a cosmo-ecological collective life of Indian modernity 19. The city of ragpickers: Shaping a faithful collective life during les trente glorieuses 20. Visions of Ecotopia Part VI: Practice and life 21. Intraventions in flux: Towards a modal spatial practice that moves and cares 22. Ethics of open types 23. The Age of Ecology in the UK 24. Opinions – or, from dialogue to conversation 25. Epilogue The Wally Close Tenement: The collective close