Creating Cohousing
building sustainable communities
McCamant, Kathryn
1959-
creator
Durrett, Charles
1955-
text
bibliography
bcc
2011
monographic
eng
xiv, 321 p. ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents :
Acknowledgments ix --
Foreword by Bill McKibben xi --
Preface xiii --
Part One : Introducing Cohousing --
Chapter 1 Addressing Our Changing Lifestyles 3 --
Chapter 2 How Cohousing Works 12 --
Chapter 3 An Old Idea – A Contemporary Approach 24 --
Part Two : Cohousing Communities in Europe : An Inside Look --
Chapter 4 The Evolution of Cohousing in Europe 39 --
Chapter 5 Trudeslund 51 --
Chapter 6 Sun and Wind + Overdrevet 59 --
Chapter 7 Jerngarden 73 --
Chapter 8 Jystrup Savvaerket 77 --
Chapter 9 Tornevangsgarden 83 --
Chapter 10 Bondebjerget 88 --
Chapter 11 Drejerbanken 93 --
Part Three : Two Decades of Cohousing in North America --
Chapter 12 Frogsong Cohousing 109 --
Chapter 13 Hearthstone Cohousing 117 --
Chapter 14 Bellingham Cohousing & Pleasant Hill Cohousing 127 --
Chapter 15 Muir Commons 135 --
Chapter 16 Doyle Street 143 --
Chapter 17 Southside Park Cohousing 153 --
Chapter 18 Jamaica Plain Cohousing 162 --
Chapter 19 Berkeley Cohousing 167 --
Chapter 20 Temescal Commons and Temescal Creek 174 --
Chapter 21 Swan ‘ s Market Cohousing 180 --
Chapter 22 WindSong Cohousing 184 --
Chapter 23 Quayside Village Cohousing 189 --
Chapter 24 Fresno Cohousing 194 --
Chapter 25 Belfast Cohousing and Ecovillage 202 --
Chapter 26 Yarrow Ecovillage 206 --
Part Four : Creating Cohousing --
Chapter 27 From Dream to Reality 215 --
Chapter 28 The Participatory Design Process 235 --
Chapter 29 Cohousing Design 247 --
Part Five : Sustainability , Longevity , and the Cohousing Legacy --
Chapter 30 Cohousing and Community 273 --
Chapter 31 Happily Ever Aftering in Cohousing 282 --
Chapter 32 The Legacy of Cohousing 289 --
Afterword 302 --
Selected Bibliography 306 --
Notes 309 --
Index 311 --
About the Author 321 --
Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Housing, Cooperative
Europe
Housing, Cooperative
North America
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