Cohousing-L Mailing List: New book: We Built a Village by Diane Margolis

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We Built a Village, Cohousing and the Commons
By Diane Rothbard Margolis Foreword by David Bollier

Publication Date: August 23, 2022
Publisher: New Village Press
Distributor: NYU Press
224 pages, 5.50 x 8.50 in, 12 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 9781613321782
Paperback price: $20
Also available as hardcover and eBook

We Built a Village describes the development of one of the first
cohousing communities in the United States, offering a social
understanding of its commons.

Cohousing, a form of communal living that clusters around shared
common space, began about a half century ago in Denmark. We Built a
Village describes the process of planning and building of an early
cohousing community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the way the
people involved simultaneously built their homes and their social
structure. As both a memoir and a sociological analysis that probes
the differences between commons and markets, it is unique among books
about cohousing. When this group of people began in the late 1990s to
construct their cohousing community, they set in motion a counterpoint
between the physical spaces and the social configurations that would
guide their lives together, even up to creative responses to the
recent pandemic.


About the Author
Diane Rothbard Margolis is a founding member of Cambridge Cohousing
where she has lived for more than twenty years. She is a former member
of the Coho/US Board of Directors and co-founder and Director Emeritus
of the Cohousing Research Network. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study 1980-1981. She has published many
research articles, and her books include The Fabric of Self, which won
Honorable Mention at the First Annual Book Award of the Eastern
Sociological Society. She is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the
University of Connecticut.

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Diane Margolis
175 Richdale Av.
Cambridge, MA 02140
617 354 1349

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Background:

Cohousing is a form of communal living that clusters around shared
common space. It began about a half century ago in Denmark and has
become quite popular in the United States. There are about 150
cohousing communities in the US now, and likely an equal number in the
planning. The book is a personal account of the behind the scenes
process of creating one of the first cohousing communities in the U.S.
in Cambridge Massachusetts.

Author Diane Margolis was one of the leaders of that planning and
development process, and she happens to be a sociologist.

We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons describes how
people simultaneously built their homes and their social structure.As
both amemoir and a sociological analysis it gives us a deeper
understanding of social commons and is unique among books about
cohousing. A concluding chapter describes the community’s unique to
creative responses to the recent pandemic.

o First book to address cohousing from a sociologist's perspective

o First cohousing book to focus on "the commons"

o Foreword by David Bollier, an author, activist, blogger and
  consultant on the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics,
  and culture

o Book will launch at the national conference of the Cohousing
  Association of the United States, CoHoUS, Madison Wisconsin,
  August 25-28, 2022

o CoHousing US runs monthly online programs and semi-annual regional
  conferences

Recent articles about cohousing:

"Does Co-Housing Provide a Path to Happiness for Modern Parents?"
New York Times10/22/2021   (with pay wall: )
http://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/opinion/cohousing-mothers-pandemic-community.html

"The Cohousing Community that Saved Me from Parenting Isolation"
Romper, 11/9/202
https://www.romper.com/parenting/me-my-co-housing-sister-wives

"Finding Community Through Cohousing"
9News, Denver 10/12/2021
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/community-cohousing-developments/73-11d7d6f9-4c3b-46c3-a36c-559034137d12

"Where Home Blends with Community"
New York Times, 9/2/2021   (with pay wall: )
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/style/cohousing-netherlands-belgium-community.html

"These Families Wanted a Village, So They Built Their Own"
Bloomberg City Lab, 6/23/2021
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-23/how-cohousing-is-making-life-easier-for-families

"These architects believe communal living is the way of the future"
CNN Style, 5/27/2021
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cohousing-helen-hard-venice-biennale/index.html

Academic Use:
Courses on place-based social relations in cities (Architecture &
Planning, Social Sciences), Community-scale economics, courses on the
commons

Where to order
https://nyupress.org/9781613321782/we-built-a-village/