Cohousing-L Mailing List: Quality in Cohousing

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 10/01/2003 8:35 PM, "Hans Tilstra" <tilstra [at] smartchat.net.au> wrote:

Thanks for digging this out. An excellent outline from which to work:

1. Transcendent definitions of quality:
Cohousing communities strive for the best that can be achieved by fully
developing and using the abilities and resources available within their
community.

2. Product-based definitions of quality
Cohousing communities strive to produce the best quality housing their
members can afford based on the values of sustainability and support for
community life.

3. User based definitions of quality
Cohousing communities are developed and managed by residents in order to
fully express and support the needs of the residents.

4. Manufacturing-based definitions of Quality
Cohousing communities are developed and maintained in full accordance with
larger community standards and take active roles in developing and
sustaining their larger communities.

5. Value-based Definitions of Quality
Cohousing communities are based on the belief that quality in housing
design, construction, and maintenance is fundamental to the development of
sustainable communities.

I didn¹t tweek the words particularly, but when you look at each of these
dimensions of quality, it forms a good definition of quality in cohousing
and provides a good definition of "cohousing" communities as unique within
the framework of intentional communities generally.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org



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