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Alright, you tried living in a commune in the 1970s, and people kept borrowing your toothbrush and leaving dishes in the sink. Then you set up house by yourself and felt lonely. You got married, started raising a family and ended up feeling isolated from your friends and the rest of the community. You go to work, wave to your neighbors over the fence now and then, and think there must be more to life than this. There is: a whole new concept of building a neighborhood and sense of community. This is the story of how and why cohousing works, and how to go about making it happen for yourself.
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Does the idea of not having to cook meals for yourself or family every night, deal with traffic on your block, or worry when your children are out playing in the neighborhood appeal to you? If the answer is yes, you may want to consider exploring cohousing, a concept that originated in Denmark in the early 1970s and has spread throughout Europe. In Cohousing, a number of European cohousing communities are profiled. Although each community is a unique reflection of its members' tastes and desires, there are some common components, such as parking lots on the perimeters of the community for pedestrian safety, a common house where meals can be shared, and recreational facilities housing various community activities and services. With all the responsibilities entailed in managing a home and/or a family, cohousing is a solution for finding sufficient time to relax and spend with the people who are important to us. (The authors have recently started The Cohousing Company, a design and development company formed specifically to assist groups interested in planning and implementing cohousing in this country.) -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Ilene Rosoff
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Alright, you tried living in a commune in the 1970s, and people kept borrowing your toothbrush and leaving dishes in the sink. Then you set up house by yourself and felt lonely. You got married, started raising a family and ended up feeling isolated from your friends and the rest of the community. You go to work, wave to your neighbors over the fence now and then, and think there must be more to life than this. There is: a whole new concept of building a neighborhood and sense of community. This is the story of how and why cohousing works, and how to go about making it happen for yourself.
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Does the idea of not having to cook meals for yourself or family every night, deal with traffic on your block, or worry when your children are out playing in the neighborhood appeal to you? If the answer is yes, you may want to consider exploring cohousing, a concept that originated in Denmark in the early 1970s and has spread throughout Europe. In Cohousing, a number of European cohousing communities are profiled. Although each community is a unique reflection of its members' tastes and desires, there are some common components, such as parking lots on the perimeters of the community for pedestrian safety, a common house where meals can be shared, and recreational facilities housing various community activities and services. With all the responsibilities entailed in managing a home and/or a family, cohousing is a solution for finding sufficient time to relax and spend with the people who are important to us. (The authors have recently started The Cohousing Company, a design and development company formed specifically to assist groups interested in planning and implementing cohousing in this country.) -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Ilene Rosoff
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cohousing development process, cohousing concept, cohousing works, cohousing residents, cohousing approach, cohousing developments, cohousing community, cohousing communities, cohousing groups, extensive common facilities, cohousing projects, common dinners, community plaza, clustered housing, common house, personal mortgages, future residents, housing professionals Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Muir Commons, Doyle Street, Ministry of Housing, Southside Park, Units Architects, Benicia Waterfront Commons, Fannie Mae, Group One, One Leads, Winslow Cohousing Group, Getting It Built, Habits of the Heart, Jystrup Savvaerket, New York, West Davis Associates, Alvin Toffler, Chris Hanson, Flemming Hagensen, Group Four, The Third Wave, The Trudeslund Community New!
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Several years ago, as a young married couple, we began to think about where we were going to raise our children. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cohousing development process, cohousing concept, cohousing works, cohousing residents, cohousing approach, cohousing developments, cohousing community, cohousing communities, cohousing groups, extensive common facilities, cohousing projects, common dinners, community plaza, clustered housing, common house, personal mortgages, future residents, housing professionals Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Muir Commons, Doyle Street, Ministry of Housing, Southside Park, Units Architects, Benicia Waterfront Commons, Fannie Mae, Group One, One Leads, Winslow Cohousing Group, Getting It Built, Habits of the Heart, Jystrup Savvaerket, New York, West Davis Associates, Alvin Toffler, Chris Hanson, Flemming Hagensen, Group Four, The Third Wave, The Trudeslund Community New!
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- The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler on 4 pages
- Redesigning the American Dream by Dolores Hayden on page 197, page 199, and Back Matter
- Life Between buildings by Jan Gehl on page 173, page 194, and Back Matter
- Pelle the Conqueror by Martin Andersen Nexø on page 136
- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville on page 201
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- Sustainable Community: Learning from the Cohousing Model by Graham Meltzer on 5 pages
- 6,000 Years of Housing: Third Revised Edition by Norbert Schoenauer on page 465, and Back Matter
- Home Planning for Your Later Years: New Designs, Living Options, Smart Decisions, How to Finance It by William K. Wasch on page 38, and page 59
- 6,000 Years of Housing, Revised and Expanded Edition by Norbert Schoenauer on page 465, and Back Matter
- Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life by Dolores Hayden in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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