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The article examines the growing scope and significance of non-market mediated public infrastructural facilities for the life situation. In seeking to examine the link between neighborhood or district social structures and the social infrastructure in these residential environments, the approach transcends both traditional patterns of interpretation in segregation research and conventional approaches in infrastructural research and planning. The explanation of the growing significance of those public services intended for public use, including their socially selective character, is rooted in a number of theories, which deal with the growing socialization of the reproduction costs of labor power in advanced urbanized societies. Fundamental changes in the production process, family structure and urban geography not only increases the individual reproduction costs of labor power but also prompt a number of forms for the collective satisfaction of needs. Growing population density and environmental pollution in large urban agglomerations require not merely direct improvements in housing, which are only in part organized through the public sector, but also a broad spectrum of facilities for leisure and recreation.

The article describes the collaborative housing projects in the Second Modern age. It regards demographic change and the shift to a service society as the new trends that influence the individualization model of life. To counter service crisis, collaborative housing projects are expected to contribute to sustainability and promote a high degree of trust which can be achieved through reading services for the blind and a simple control system among neighbors.