Cohousing - must it be resident built? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Jerry Callen (jcallen![]() |
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Date: Tue, 24 May 94 16:20 CDT |
From: stuarts [at] landau.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen) The important thing about cohousing is not a certain way to arrange buildings, but a way to arrange people -- in a community. If professional marketers pick it up, they will be selling an image, a mirage. The real thing can only be built by the people involved. This is certainly the accepted cohousing wisdom, but I wonder if it is true. After all, at least a part of what cohousing is attempting to do is RECAPTURE the sense of neighborhood that seems to have been lost in much of suburban living. No one planned the neighborhood that I grew up in, yet it fostered a surprising (in retrospect) level of community. I suspect that full-blown cohousing, with community meals and the whole nine yards, may need to be built by the residents in order to work. But I also suspect that the architectural features of cohousing could be used by a developer to produce a collection of dwelling units that could, eventually, evolve into a fairly tight-knit community. -- Jerry Callen jcallen [at] world.std.com (preferred) jcallen [at] think.com (OK, too) {uunet,harvard}!think!jcallen (if you must)
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Cohousing - must it be resident built? Jerry Callen, May 24 1994
- RE: Cohousing - must it be resident built? Rob Sandelin, May 24 1994
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