New UniGR-CBS Working Paper: "Doing as over there?" Attempt to transpose a Swiss public utility housing model into the French context

Cross-border regions are often laboratories for the circulation of ideas and practices. The new UniGR-CBS Working Paper examines the question whether in the Greater Geneva region it is possible to transpose the cooperative housing model, fairly developed in Switzerland into the French context, where this type of housing is less common.

Using the example of Viry, which is a French municipality located within the institutional perimeter of Greater Geneva, the article analyzes the possibilities and limits of such a transposition. The results show the difficulty in emulating a context specific to reproducing the Swiss model of cooperatives in France.

The legislative and institutional differences, but also cultural differences with regard to housing in its various dimensions are all obstacles to reproducing in France methods of construction of cooperative housing proven in Switzerland.
 

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Bolzman, C., Bridji, S., Cantoreggi, N., Guibert, E., Matthey, L. (2020): « Faire comme là-bas ? » Tentative de transposition en contexte français d’un modèle suisse de logement d’utilité publique. In: UniGR-CBS Working Paper 9, UniGR-Center for Border Studies. Download