"Something I'd love to see as we move towards higher density urban living (in more US cities) is communal kitchens in apartments. On par with a gym." There use

"Something I'd love to see as we move towards higher density urban living (in more US cities) is communal kitchens in apartments. On par with a gym." There used to be something called a 'dining club' -in the Anglosphere it mostly descended from Oxbridge student dining clubs (some were regimental dining clubs). Various social clubs in the 1800s Anglosphere descended from these sorts of things. I used to belong to one; the Berkeley City Club. In addition to providing maybe hundreds of people with the services of a professional chef, it provides something not appreciated in the modern day, with people staring at their phones: an actual social circle, and a place to go after work that isn't a bar. These sorts of things used to be quite common, and formed the nucleus of many political associations and movements, but they became less popular with the social atomization of the 1960s.