Reinventing Community

by Wann, David

• ISBN13: 9781555915018
• ISBN10: 1555915019
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Fulcrum Pub

Summary

Cohousing began in Scandinavia in the 1960s as a response to the alienation of typical suburban communities where you don't know your neighbor nor can rely on their assistance-not even for a cup of sugar. Cohousing spread to the United States in the 1980s and there are now several hundred such communities throughout the country in more than 30 states, and it continues to grow quickly.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Neighborhoods on Purpose	1	(30)
Laboratories of Social Change or ``Yuppie Communes?''	3	(10)
David Wann
``Bofaellesskaber?'' An Interview with the Pioneer Couple of American Cohousing	13	(11)
David Wann
Guiding a Community Home	24	(7)
Matt Worswick
Putting the ``Neighbor'' Back Into ``Neighborhoods''	31	(12)
Ten Great Reasons to Live in Cohousing	32	(2)
Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood Stories	34	(2)
Rob Sandelin
How Sixty-Seven Tons of Brick Connected a Community	36	(5)
Saoirse Charis-Graves
What I Learned from Children about Giving and Receiving	41	(1)
Charles B. Maclean
Looking Back---But Only for an Instant	42	(1)
Steve Einstein
Creating Sustainable Neighborhoods	43	(60)
A Recipe for Saving the World, One Bagel at a Time	49	(3)
David Wann
How Does Cohousing Create Sustainability?	52	(7)
Graham Meltzer
If Not Us, Who?	59	(10)
PattyMara Gourley
Preserving Open Space---and My Sense of Humor	69	(7)
Edee Gail
Money, Homes, and Trust: Economic Diversity at Wild Sage	76	(6)
Ellen Orleans
Have Conscience, Will Build: A Developer Reflects on Cohousing	82	(11)
Jim Leach
The Journey to 90 Percent Recycling at Quayside Village	93	(6)
Brian Burke
The Landscape of Cohousing and Other Reflections	99	(4)
Grant McCormick
Visiting Five Cohousing Communities	103	(56)
Greyrock Commons Cohousing
Growing Pains, Trials, and Triumphs	105	(9)
Katharine Gregory
Reflections of a Cohousing Elder	114	(4)
Renate G. Justin
Learning from the Land	118	(6)
Deborah Warshaw
New View Cohousing
With a Little Help from My Friends	124	(8)
Dana Snyder-Grant
Heroes, Villains, and Hopeless Hams: Kid Theater at New View Cohousing	132	(5)
Franny Osman
Divorce Unites a Community	137	(2)
Jane Saks
Duwamish Cohousing
My Less-Than-Perfect Community	139	(5)
Virginia Lore
Swan's Market Cohousing
Bringing Life Back to an Urban Neighborhood	144	(10)
Stella Tarnay
Temescal Creek Cohousing
A Different Kind of Fixer-Upper: Retrofit Cohousing	154	(5)
Karen Hester
Getting Started: How to Build Community in One Short Decade or Less	159	(28)
Building Community---in More Ways Than One	161	(4)
Bryan Bowen
Sage-ing, Not Aging, at Silver Sage: The Birth of an Elder Community	165	(4)
Silvine Marbury Farnell
Reaching beyond Ourselves: Foster Parenting in Cohousing	169	(4)
Laura Fitch
The Sewing Lessons	173	(1)
Julie Rodwell
John's Offer	174	(2)
Jane Saks
Burning Souls, Founders, and Maintainers: The Evolution of Muir Commons	176	(11)
Rick Mockler
Moving in and Moving On	187	(20)
Through the Looking Glass	189	(12)
PattyMara Gourley
How Can We Forget Move-in?	201	(3)
Sharon Villines
Stairway Common Meals, Cohousing-Style	204	(2)
Julie Rodwell
Fearless John Mackey's Last Days	206	(1)
David Wann
Daily Life in Cohousing	207	(40)
Half-Man, a Styrofoam Mannequin, Disappears at the Harmony Village Garage Sale	209	(3)
Su Niedringhaus
Cooking for Fifty: Crisis or Opportunity?	212	(8)
Elizabeth Stevenson
Art at Rosewind: Joy and Ruckus	220	(6)
Lynn Nadeau
Growing a Garden, Growing a Community	226	(8)
Jenise Aminoff
How the Work Gets Done	234	(5)
Sharon Villines
Let Cohousing Put You in the Driver's Seat	239	(1)
Mary Kraus
It Takes a Village to Raise a Mother	240	(7)
Elaine Marshall Fawcett
Creating a Neighborhood Culture	247	(14)
The Annual Retreat Is Here!	250	(2)
Laura Fitch
Celebrating a Wedding at Greyrock Commons	252	(3)
Renate G. Justin
Winter Solstice: Warm and Cold	255	(4)
Rob Sandelin
Sandy Thompson
Saoirse Charis-Graves
Dancing Our Story	259	(2)
PattyMara Gourley
Resources	261	(2)
Contributors	263