Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cooperative neighbors and neighbornets, Definition of Terms

[create2gro (create2gro]

Dear cohousing-l,
 
Can anyone refer us to another example of an Urban "Infill" Neighborhood 
other than the Nomad Cohousing Community?
 
Thanks!
 
HOLISTIC NEIGHBORS
create2gro [at] aol.com 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: fholson [at] cohousing.org
To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
Sent: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Cooperative neighbors and neighbornets, Definition of Terms



Hannah <create2gro [at] aol.com> wrote:

> I just received Zev & Neshama's ELDER COHOUSING UPDATE.  There they
> speak of Nomad Cohousing Community, an Urban "Infill" Neighborhood.
>
> Can anyone Compare and Contrast these terms, please:
> 1) Cooperative Neighborhood
> 2) "Infill" Neighborhood
> 3) Neighbornet
> 4) Retrofit Cohousing

These terms (1,2,4) do not have widely accepted definitions in my
experience and they do overlap. Various writers use these or other
variations of thse terms. Here's my ad hoc attempt to define them.

I tried to promote the use of the term  Retrofit Cohousing to mean a
cohousing like community developed in existing housing with little or no
reconstruction of the physical facitlies.  It involves a turnover of the
population - typically as current residents move out of their own
volition. It has also been called "organic cohousing".  The premier example is
N street cohousing.  See link via my page:
http://mn.cohousing.org/retrofit/
(note that this page needs updating - suggestions encouraged - email me.
Unfortunately both terms conjure other interpretations and have been used
differently on occasion.  The cohousing-L archives contain this term often
( http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-l/  (with search form)

 "Infill" Neighborhood  "Infill" is often used to refer to development on
a relatively small parcel of land surounded by already developed land that
is not changing.  Usually proposals for such parcels are compatible with
existing uses which limits how they can be developed (as well as the size
and shape etc of the parcel.

Cooperative Neighborhood.  I dont recall a/the specific use of this term

 ( possibly in the 1995 book: _Rebuilding Community in America_, by Ken
  Norwood, AICP and Kathleen Smith.)  I presume it refers to a neighborhood
 with some intentional effort to build or facilitate community building.
 I am unaware of any size limits implied.

Neighbornets is a term used by some folks in Seattle who are trying to
build residential intentional community amongst (mostly - this is the
opposite of cohousing) existing residents of city communities but they are
not as compact as cohousing.  From their web site (link via retrofit pg above).

 Neighbornets are a way that people organize themselves within
 neighborhoods based on shared values, shared needs, and shared interests.
 "Sharing" is a key word in neighbornets. Participants in neighbornets
 share resources, time, and friendship with one another.

 Another important characteristic of neighbornets is "proximity" or
 "place." Members of any given neighbornet always live, work, or spend
 time in the same general area. They may live next door, several blocks
 away, work at the corner store, or ride their bike from a mile away.

Fred

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