Baugruppen,
unlike cohousing, which tends to be a grouping of single family houses often in the burbs, are multi-story, multi-family buildings, located in cities (Eliason likens them to condos).
The ideas behind
cohousing include a few standard principles, including resident participation in design and master planning, physical design that specifically refers to communal usage and social interaction, communal facilities, resident management, non-hierarchal structure and decision - making, and no shared economic reliance (that last part making it decidedly
unlike a commune — phew.)