Re: Cohousing Distribution by Location "type" (was Co-Farming Community) | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com) | |
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:49:39 -0700 (PDT) |
On Oct 27, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Craig Ragland wrote:
Urban: 40% Small Town: 22% Rural: 21% Suburban: 17% The last time this came up on Coho-L, some wanted to nit-pick the categories - each Community member who entered their directory listing made the decision about which category to select, there is nobody controlling or checking up on their entries.
I think when we looked up definitions of what a city, town, etc, is in different fields, many of the community self-definitions were misleading. What is rural to one is suburban to another unless people understand how the census, city planners, sociologists, and other cohousers define these.
Since small towns are popular at the moment, yesterday's suburb is suddenly a small town. We are in Washington DC and one of our members truly believed that we were a suburban, not urban, because urban is mid-town Manhattan where neither pedestrians nor cars can move at high noon. City meant gridlock to him.
A standard definition of what is urban, etc., on the form might help people choose more accurately, and give prospective community members better information. We would all be working from the same definition.
Sharon ---- Sharon Villines Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org
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Cohousing Distribution by Location "type" (was Co-Farming Community) Craig Ragland, October 27 2009
- Re: Cohousing Distribution by Location "type" (was Co-Farming Community) Sharon Villines, October 27 2009
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