Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Time article online

[Fred H. Olson (fholson]

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Bitner/Stevenson lilbert [at] earthlink.net wrote:

> If anyone is interested in reading the article from Time magazine, it is now
> archived at the Time website at:
> 
> http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,35852,00.html

Interesting article, despite the commune stuff, it looks like good pr to
me.  I particularly liked it's emphasis on Southside, one of my favorite
communites.  Unfortunately I did not notice any reference to
www.cohousing.org or other ways to get more info.

A couple specific comments:

>   So far, cohousing construction hasn't kept up with demand. There are
>   44 projects built in the U.S. and Canada, with 160 soon to be     
>   completed and 15,000 people on a list of potential residents.

I think the "160" is fiction but I don't really know what it should be.
Michael do you have numbers from the "Status" indicator on the groups
list?  Does anyone know what the "15,000" refers to?

>   "The general public has the impression they all died out in the    
>   1960s," says Michael Cummings, a University of Colorado, Denver,
>   political scientist who has studied communes for 17 years. In fact,
>   Cummings estimates, there are now tens of thousands of "intentional
>   communities"--groups of people who reject conventional neighborhoods
>   and live with others who share their values or interests.      


Anyone familiar with this fellow and his work?  My quick search of the web 
did not turn up anything but there seem to be lots of Michael Cummings's

Fred

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