Cohousing-L Mailing List: Jan Gudmand-Hoyer contact? -- DK99 tour starts soon

[Fred H. Olson (fholson]

We are in the final 3 weeks or so before the start of the DK99 tour of
Cohousing in the Copenhagen, Denmark area.  (see www.cohousing.org)

I think of this trip as not only benefiting the individuals who are going
but contributing to the collective knowledge of the cohousing movement in
the US.  Many of us going have been involved in encouraging the
development of cohousing in the US generally. I expect we will be sharing
what we learn at the October conference in Amherst. 

We are belatedly realizing that meeting Jan Gudmand-Hoyer would be very
desireable.  He was (is?) much involved in the development of the
cohousing idea in Denmark (see his name in the cohousing book --
_Cohhousing_ by McCamant and Durret ).  There is extensive coverage of
Jan's cohousing ideas in the book and the book is dedicated to him.  He
might even be called the father of the cohousing idea.  I think he now
uses the term "third generation"  cohousing to refer to designs with a
glass covered pedestrian street.  I would like to see a Danish example of
this.  Windsong in BC, CA is an example tho I could not find the term on
their website after a quick look. 

Does anyone know what Jan is doing more recently and how to contact him?

Another question I have is whether there is any cohousing (or intentional
communities - preferably toward the cohousing end of the spectrum of ic's)
in central
Copenhagen. So far I am not aware of any. They all seem to be in suburban
locations.  Of course what is "suburban"  there is probably somewhat
different than what we think of as "suburban"  here.  I am in contact with
a community in central Stockholm that I hope to visit.

Lastly I'd be interested in seeing and comparing communites that vary in
their level of state support and encouragement.  I have heard that some
have accepted a tradeoff of more government support for some more formal
'open occupancy' rules that may lead to a somewhat less average level of
commitment to the community by some people.  (that probably was not worded
well, sorry.  In fact this whole message is less well researched than I'd
like but time is getting short so I decided I had to post what I could
now)

Fred
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