Cohousing-L Mailing List: MEDIEVAL CITIES AS COHOUSING

[Linda Gluck (treehouse]

So timely that Charles makes his observations about Austrian medieval  
cities. I just returned from Tuscany where I visited medieval walled  
cities such as Arezzo, Siena, Cortona, Montepulciano and Volterra -  
each with "clustered" multiple dwellings, narrow streets, volume  
parking often outside the city walls, a busy pedestrian life, piazzas  
for community gathering, daily shopping for fresh, local food in  
small shops, and everywhere people walking and talking together.  
Family farms surround the cities.

It's a system that worked then and works now, and looks  
like...cohousing.

Linda Gluck
Legacy Farm Cohousing (in formation)
Rosendale, NY
www.legacyfarmcohousing.com