Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddessattbi.com) | |
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:23:06 -0700 (MST) |
Howard, NO!!! I never said that. Please go back and read it again. Love, Liz > From: Howard Landman <howard [at] polyamory.org> > Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org > Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:12:43 -0800 (PST) > To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org > Subject: Re: [C-L]_Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? > > Elizabeth Stevenson said: >>> the BRICKS AND STICKS of the community ... >>> Who really cares about that stuff? -- > > Racheli wrote: >> I care about "bricks and sticks",and so do many cohousers. In fact, >> anyone who cares about environmental issues should. > > I have to say that I agree with Racheli. I care passionately about > the physical environment of cohousing, although perhaps with a different > emphasis. I believe that the design of the community can have an immense > impact on the day-to-day functioning of it. Even something as simple as > having the common house in the middle versus on one end can make a huge > difference. > > I completely redesigned the main floor of my unit because I thought > that the consensed-on floorplan had serious problems. I'm happy with > the results, but some of my neighbors are now a little unhappy that > theirs were done the other way. For example, my living room is a full > 3 feet wider than the original floorplan, *without* taking away much of > anything of value (basically I straightened out a bent staircase). > > Good architecture is like poetry, with multiple meanings and uses > packed in to a single feature, and everything resonating in harmony. > Bad architecture is like bad poetry, full of clunkers and incoherencies > and things that make you wonder why anyone would ever have chosen to do > that. And you have to live with it every day. A single misplaced > light switch can be an ongoing source of frustration for years. > > If the physical design is meaningless, try taking a standard suburban > neighborhood and making cohousing there. (I know, it's been done, but > it can be so much better if designed well from the beginning with > cohousing in mind.) > > In any coho group you're going to have some people who care a lot > about some particular aspect, and others who care about other things. > This is good and healthy. It means there will be people to work on > the landscaping and people to wire up the computer network, people > to garden and people to make drapes, people to stock the CH kitchen > and people to do the accounting. You need all of these. I think > a community has to have some aspects of "similarity and agreement", > but also some aspects of "difference and organic interdependence". > It's OK if some people think the "bricks and sticks" are meaningless, > as long as there are others who know otherwise. We don't all have to > do everything (thank goodness!). > > Howard A. Landman > River Rock Commons > Fort Collins CO > > P.S. A *third* cohousing group is just starting to form in Ft. Collins! > I'll post info sometime soon. > _______________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list > Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: > http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
- Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"?, (continued)
- Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? Gary Kent, November 20 2002
- Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? Racheli Gai, November 20 2002
- Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? Elizabeth Stevenson, November 20 2002
- Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? Howard Landman, November 20 2002
- Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? Elizabeth Stevenson, November 20 2002
- Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? Sharon Villines, November 22 2002
- RE: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? Rob Sandelin, November 22 2002
- Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? Sharon Villines, November 22 2002
- Re: Do cohousers care about "bricks and sticks"? Elizabeth Stevenson, November 22 2002
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