Re: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson WB0YQM (fholson![]() |
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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 05:36 CDT |
On Thu, 21 Jul 94 00:55 CDT, Larry Israel <lisrael [at] u.washington.edu> wrote: > >To me, there are several key differences between intentional communities >and cohousing communities: To me the term intentional communities has two meanings. Having two meanings confuses the use of the term so we should try to be clear on which use is meant. By the way the Minneapolis Andersen Lane group is starting to consider what has been called "Virtual Cohousing" (Cohousing Journal 5*4 Winter '94 pg 22) - creating community in existing neighborhoods. We use the term "Intentional Neighborhood" for our concept. "Virtual Cohousing" does not appeal to me given the use of "Virtual community" to refer to online social phenomenon. We have a bit of virtual community here on Cohousing-L tho with 250 subscribers it's minimal in most ways. I'll try to post more later about our latest directions now that the Andersen Lane proposal looks dead. My two definitions of Intentional Community: One derives from the words - a community that results from intentional planning and design - in which case cohousing is a subset. Second a meaning based on previous useage which I think Larry's 3 points describe well (relative to cohousing) which I'd summarize as more like one big household: 1.) More shared economic base 2.) More shared beliefs 3.) Less private space > > >3. Cohousing has more extensive private spaces than most intentional >communities, with each household (or family) having their own complete >housing unit. This is usually not the case within intentional >communities. This implies and relates to cohousing having fewer life functions that are done together. As stated by a Danish cohouser in one of the video clips we use: Cohousing makes a good compromise between what is private and what is common. Fred -- Fred H. Olson fholson [at] uci.com Amateur radio: WB0YQM 1221 Russell Av N, Minneapolis, MN 55411 voice: (612) 588-9532 Sysop of COHOUSING-L listserv & gopherspace (gopher: gopher.uci.com)
- RE: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing, (continued)
- RE: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing Rob Sandelin, July 13 1994
- RE: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing Don Maddox, July 13 1994
- RE: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing David Thomasson, July 13 1994
- Re: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing Larry Israel, July 20 1994
- Re: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing Fred H Olson WB0YQM, July 21 1994
- Re: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing Rob Sandelin, July 21 1994
- Re: Intentional Communities vs. Cohousing Rob Sandelin, July 21 1994
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