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From: Fred H Olson (fholson![]() |
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:26:18 -0800 (PST) |
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Fred H Olson wrote: Tom Lofft, Liberty Village, MD wrote: > This offers some interesting thinking about urban communities; unfortunately when I posted his message with a broken tiny url. The corrected one is: http://tinyurl.com/monkyspheres2 which really goes to: > http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/12/of-monkyspheres-and-microhoods- > collective-urban-living-for-the-21st-century/ The brief article proposes "microhoods, a new development model for urban infill housing. Places for 150 people ... making it vertical" Other than the size somewhat larger than most cohousing and explicitly "vertical", it is not clear how it differs from cohousing except in name. The 150 number corresponds to "Dunbar's Number" and refers to theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom we can maintain stable social relationships. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number But if indeed this is the maximum (there's considerable debate/uncertainty), what about the other people one knows in other contexts? One of the advantages of urban living is that there lots of people around with lots of different `interests and expertise. Maybe cohousing's typical somewhat smaaler size is more reasonable and allows for knowing some people outside those one lives near... Fred -- Jun 22: Robert Reich's Rx for real health care reform http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/20/healthcare/print.html Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Communications for Justice -- Free, superior listserv's w/o ads: http://justcomm.org My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm CST/CDT) Email: fholson at cohousing.org
- Re: Monkyspheres and microhoods - Urban Cohousing, (continued)
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Re: Monkyspheres and microhoods - Urban Cohousing Ken Cameron-Bell, January 1 2010
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Re: Monkyspheres and microhoods - Urban Cohousing S. Kashdan, January 1 2010
- Re: Monkyspheres and microhoods - Urban Cohousing Richard L. Kohlhaas, January 1 2010
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Re: Monkyspheres and microhoods - Urban Cohousing S. Kashdan, January 1 2010
- Re: Monkyspheres and microhoods - Urban Cohousing Sharon Villines, January 2 2010
- Re: Monkyspheres - Fixed URL Fred H Olson, January 3 2010
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Re: Monkyspheres and microhoods - Urban Cohousing Ken Cameron-Bell, January 1 2010
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