Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re: "Making" Community

[Harry Pasternak (Harry_Pasternak]

David
Your suggestion is "that I am railing"--I call it "whistle blowing". I am
concerned about dedicated people interested in developing a
collaborative/cooperative/cohousing neighborhood to live in, are sometimes
being given misinformation by so-called "professional experts" in this field
who in fact don't have any expertise at all. I have posted several messages
requesting scientific evaluation/research reports done by third parties on
collaborative/cooperative/cohousing neighborhoods--as yet I have received
zero reports.
What needs to be done is exactly what you and others are not doing--in your
note you state:

"I haven't been there, but N St. appears to be a wildly successful community.

 It was not built as cohousing or as anything special.

Why doesn't community spring forth from most or all well designed condo 
villages?" 

Get off your butt, and go and investigate the "wildly successfull N St.",
then go and investigate one of those "well designed condo villages" and
compare the two--you will start to learn about the elements of successfull
collaborative/cooperative/cohousing neighborhood design. If you don't know
how to do this kind of investigation contact Jan Gehl or myself.
Get out of the office--get out there-- use your eyes.
Harry Pasternak
Thousand Islands Institute
The Independent Centre For Housing Research & Education
(Harry_Pasternak [at] tvo.org)
 

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