Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: demographics survey

[Stuart Staniford-Chen (stanifor]

Steve Farley wrote:
>
> I will formulate a draft survey and post it here for comments once I
> have it drawn up. And please also contact me if you are willing to
> answer the survey for your built coho group--that is the link where this
> survey could potentially fail--if we don't get enough groups fully
> responding.
>
> Or am I way off base? Do other folks think this would be a good idea?
>

Steve:

It seems to me that this would somewhat redundant with the work Graham  
Meltzer (g.meltzer [at] qut.edu.au) did last fall - he travelled around all  
(or nearly all) the communities in North America and did surveys on the  
spot with residents.  He's writing his thesis around the results, but did  
promise to make pieces of the data available on the web at an earlier  
date.  So you might contact him to see where he is up to.

Stuart.

* From: Cohousing-L listmgr <_fholson@mtn.org_>
* Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 11:09:40 -0600
* Subject: A special word of thanks from Graham Meltzer
* Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961224105223.5582B-100000 [at] freedom.mtn.org>
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Graham Meltzer g.meltzer [at] qut.edu.au
is the author of the message below but due to a problem it was posted
by the Fred the list manager: owner-cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org
********************  FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS ***********************

I (Graham) thought I'd sent this earlier ... but it failed to show up
amongst my coho-l digests .... so am trying again with apologies if it's a
repeat posting.

It's a measure, it seems to me, of our 'sense of (the cohousing) community'
.. that I can feel it's appropriate to broadcast to the list ... a
personal and heartfelt thank-you for all the kindness and goodwill I've
experienced in the last three months of living amongst Nth American
communities.

A brief explanation ....

I am an Australian cohousing researcher (and would-be cohouser). Since
September when I arrived in Amherst, MA, I have visited about 18 cohousing
communites in the US and Canada, spending typically 2-3 days in each ...
surveying and interviewing residents and documenting the architecture and
site planning. The work went well ... but more significantly, I have made
wonderfull friends, enjoyed beautiful residential environments, been in awe
of the sophistication of group process ... and generally been moved and
inspired by the quality of the human relationships I've noted exist in
cohousing communities.

Thank you one and all.

We, (my partner Jane joined me for the last month of the trip) flew back
yesterday to tropical weather, our gorgeous teenage daughters and about
3000 email messages. I will endevour in the near future to re-establish
email contact with friends, but wish to let everyone know I'm back in
Australia and have reverted to my regular email address
(g.meltzer [at] qut.edu.au) should anyone wish to contact me.

The data I have gathered is still vey raw ... but it is voluminous, and
will be statistically meaningfull given the 80% response rate to the
survey. I am really looking forward to processing the forms and seeing what
emerges. I hope to quickly feed back to the communities I visited, results
pertaining to them and to make general findings available via the cohousing
network and the journal. I will also post to this list as time allows.

Best wishes to you all

Graham

Graham Meltzer
School of Architecture, Interior and Industrial Design
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
ph (617) 3864 2535




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