Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Community site design references

[Stuart Staniford-Chen (stanifor]

Rob says:

> I am looking for any community design articles or books which would be 
> useful for cohousing site design ideas or concepts. I already have the 
> cohousing book.

One thing you might look at is "A Pattern Language", by Christopher Alexander
et al (Oxford University Press, New York, 1977).  It is a very ambitious
attempt to offer advice on building at all scales - from how to lay out
cities down to what to hang on the walls of your house.  It has a lot of very
inspiring ideas though, and some of the ones in the middle scale apply to
cohousing.

Stuart.

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Stuart Staniford-Chen
stanifor [at] cs.ucdavis.edu
N Street Cohousing, Davis, CA
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