RE: Cohousing, Communes, Community--Not for Profit! Please | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Stuart Staniford-Chen (stuarts![]() |
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Date: Tue, 24 May 94 15:39 CDT |
Rob Sandelin says Personally I'm all in favor of being co-opted by mainstream business, it will spread the movement farther and faster and the more people who start living in a sane way the better our society will become. -------- I fear not. I think if cohousing becomes something marketed by mainstream commerce, what you will get is the "look" of cohousing, with none of the spirit of it. The important thing about cohousing is not a certain way to arrange buildings, but a way to arrange people -- in a community. If professional marketers pick it up, they will be selling an image, a mirage. The real thing can only be built by the people involved. In a lot of ways, condominium developments are architecturally very like cohousing communities, but socially they are nothing like them (at least the ones I have seen). Of course I'm not against people working with developers to help work out the technical aspects of getting their place built. But I can't imagine it working if the developer is the driving force behind the project rather than the people who want to live there. Stuart. N-Street Cohousing.
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Cohousing, Communes, Community--Not for Profit! Please Jean Pfleiderer, May 24 1994
- RE: Cohousing, Communes, Community--Not for Profit! Please Rob Sandelin, May 24 1994
- RE: Cohousing, Communes, Community--Not for Profit! Please Stuart Staniford-Chen, May 24 1994
- RE: Cohousing, Communes, Community--Not for Profit! Please Rob Sandelin, May 24 1994
- RE: Cohousing, Communes, Community--Not for Profit! Please Jean Pfleiderer, May 24 1994
- RE: Cohousing, Communes, Community--Not for Profit! Please Rob Sandelin, May 24 1994
- RE: Cohousing, Communes, Community--Not for Profit! Please Stuart Staniford-Chen, May 24 1994
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