Re: Diversity is the point | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Bruce Koller (bkollerdvc.edu) | |
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 12:44:58 -0500 |
On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, Collaborative Housing Society wrote: > I increasingly describe coho as intentional > neighbourhood. "Community" has become a way of describing a group of people > that share certain characteristics, or more exactly, preferences - race, > religion, sexuality, opposition or support for some issue. > > "Neighbourhood" is not based on politics but geography. > Your neighbourhood is those people who share the place you live. Guess > what. Most of the time, you have no choice who your neighbours are. The > test of a good neighbourhood is in finding ways to get along with people who > don't share your point of view, except for a desire to have a good place to > live their lives. > > This is the need that cohousing addresses for me - a way of recognizing, > understanding and perhaps doing something about making good neighbourhoods. > If that means going out and building a new one, then so be it. But it could > also mean inviting your neighbours to the next coho pot luck. Maybe the > community you're looking for is already there, waiting to be born. . . > > In the end, I remind you (and me, on a daily basis) that if you want good > neighbours, you have to be a good neighbour. Maybe coho is a way of > recruiting good neighbours, or at least people who are predisposed to being > neighbourly. I'm not sure I'd want to take it much beyond that. > > Russell Mawby > Collaborative Housing Society - Toronto > cohosoc [at] web.apc.org > > > I think this is very well put and it decribes exactly why I am so committed to cohousing. Thanks, Russell. Bruce Koller Old Oakland Cohousing Group bkoller [at] dvc.edu
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Diversity is the point Collaborative Housing Society, October 12 1995
- Re: Diversity is the point Bruce Koller, October 12 1995
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