Cohousing-L Mailing List: Dorit Fromm's CoHousing Manual

[Harry Pasternak (Harry_Pasternak]

Carl
Here is the info on Dorit Fromm's book " Collaborative Communities-
Cohousing, Central Living and Other New Forms of Housing With Shared
Facilities" published by Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Contents:
1. What Is Collaborative Housing?
-Common Facilities
-Private Dwellings
-Resident Structured Routines
-Resident Management
-Design For Social Contact
-Resident Participation in the Development Process
-Pragmatic Social Objectives

2. Danish Cohousing: A Housing Alternative
-Jystrup Sawaerket: A Glass Street
-The Urban Neighborhood: Mixing Cohousing, Schools, and Businesses

3. Dutch CollaborAtive Housing
-Hilversumse Meenty:Urban Clusters
-Dutch Central Living: Levels of Community
-Purmerend: Financing Experiments

4. Swedish Collaborative Housing
-Stacken: A Rental Tower
-Swedish Kollektivhus: A Public Alternative
-The Service Houses
-Stolplykan: Including Social Services Within The Community

5. But Would We Want To Live There?
-Motivation and Organization
-Design
-Environment
-Financing 

6. Santa Rosa Creek Commons: Learning To Compromise
-The Design
-Financing
-Building
-Costs
-The Commons Today
-Children
-Diversity and Conflict
-The Monthly Meeting

7. Other American Examples
-Sunlight: Passive Solar Design
-N Street: An Expanding Community
-Bryn Gweled: Two Acre Homesteads
-Monan's Rill: A Rural Retreat
-I Wonder If Herbie's Home Yet?

8. Nonprofit Developments
-Amalgamated Houses: Generations of Cooperation
-The Resevoir Cooperative: Mixing Incomes

9. Four Imagined Scenarios
-Apartment Building: The Vertical Street
-Renovated Industrial Building: Housing and Workspace
-Three Interconnected Clusters
-Suburban Scheme: Home Ownership and Gardens

10. How Is A Sense of Community Created?
-Shared Ownership and Governance
-Design
-The Collaborative Attitude
-Outline of the Developmental Process
-Example Communities

11. Formation (and Information)
-Growing a Group
-Discussing Goals
-Running General Meetings
-Making Decisions
-Orienting New Members

12. Structuring the Development
-Committee Tasks
-Membership Agreements
-Schedule and Budget
-Consultants and/or Developers

13. Site Search
-Selecting a Site
-Cost Considerations
-Development Requirements

14. Financing and Ownership Options
-Membership Fees
-Money For Development
-Financing Options
-Types of Ownership

15. Design
-Design Stratgedies
-Achieving Consensus
-Elements of the Design Program
-Design Postcript

16. Building
-Bids
-Construction
-Sweat Equity

17. Issues of Community Life
-Before Moving In
-Conflict and Empowerment
-Conflict Resolution and Empowerment

Appendix A: New-Housing Terms
Appendix B: A Comparison of Ownership Types
Appendix C: Sample Design Programs
Appendix D: Membership Agreement
Appendix E: Danish, Dutch, and Swedish Collaborative Communities
Appendix F: Diagrams of Communities

Dorit is Project Director for the Ecumenical Association for Housing in San
Rafael California. Previously, she conducted master planning studies for
Sprankle, Lynd and Sprague Architects, as well as simulations of urban and
suburban growth scenarios for the Environmental Simulations Laboratory. She
is the author of many papers ion the housing field that have appeared in the
Architectural Review and other professional publications. Ms. Fromm was
awarded a grant from the National Endowment For The Arts to research new
forms of housing with shared services. She also was a recipient of a Branner
Traveling Fellowship for visiting international housing projects. She earned
the M.A. in architecture from the University of California, Berkley. 

 Good reading, Harry 

Who works at The Thousand Islands Institutute- The Independent Centre for
Housing Research and Education. 
One project the Institute is involved in is helping (there are no consulting
fees) cohousing/collaborative (intentional neighborhoods) groups who intend
to self-design and self-manage the construction of their neighborhood and
homes. 
The deal is the Institute will assist a group --- in turn each group is then
responsible for assisting two other groups etc.--- etc.
I can be contacted at Harry_Pasternak [at] tvo.org,Internet

- sent via an evaluation copy of BulkRate (unregistered).