In order to fill the gap, this study surveys collective action in apartment building management and proposes to utilize the institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework to analyze their problems.
Istanbul Sweet Home is an owners' collective offering 11 apartments throughout the city's European Beyoğlu district.
The spaces are often teeny and the prices are generally enormous, but perhaps the most irritating feature of living in New York City condominiums and co-ops lies past the wallet and outside the apartment door: collective decision-making among dozens, even hundreds, of neighbors.
A new block of more than 500 apartments, the Collective acts like a giant shared house: small private bedrooms with communal laundry, kitchens, spa, cinema and workspaces … and some covert matchmaking by the managers.
Of the 125 homes, 87 were single dwellings and 36 were apartments in collective buildings (2 were not defined).
The end result, she says, was a harvest of landmark status applications to add to a growing stack, at the apartment of the collective's unofficial leader, Jonathan Cohen.
I also went to what is called the 'towers', unfinished blocks of apartments turned into collective shelters for displaced families.
Olga Ovsyanykova and her daughter Tanya, in their two-room apartment in the Holy Mountains collective center for IDPs in Svyatohirsk.
In Rand's apartment on East 34th Street, her collective sat around imagining a better, freer world.
It is hard to imagine them becoming common amid the wrecked tractors and abandoned apartment blocks of Russia's failing collective farms.
