Reinventing Community: Stories from the Neighborhoods of Cohousing
A collection of first hand experiences from inside these unique neighborhoods, offering a glimpse at the personalities and dynamic that make them work.
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Laboratories of social change of "yuppie communes?"3"Bofaellesskaber?" : an interview with the pioneer couple of American cohousing13Guiding a community home24Ten great reasons to live in cohousing32Sharingwood stories34How sixty-seven tons of brick connected a community36What I learned from children about giving and receiving41Looking back - but only for an instant42A recipe for saving the world, one bagel at a time49How does cohousing create sustainability?52If not us, who?59Preserving open space - and my sense of humor69Money, homes, and trust : economic diversity at Wild Sage76Have conscience, will build : a developer reflects on cohousing82The journey to 90 percent recycling at Quayside Village93The landscape of cohousing and other reflections99Growing pains, trials, and triumphs105Reflections of a cohousing elder114Learning from the land118With a little help from my friends124Heroes, villains, and hopeless hams : kid theater at new view cohousing132Divorce unites a community137My less-than-perfect community139Bringing life back to an urban neighborhood144A different kind of fixer-upper : retrofit cohousing154Building community - in more ways than one161Sage-ing, not aging, at Silver Sage : the birth of an elder community165Reaching beyond ourselves : foster parenting in cohousing169The sewing lessons173John's offer174Burning souls, founders, and maintainers : the evolution of Muir Commons176Through the looking glass189How can we forget move-in?201Stairway common meals, cohousing-style204Fearless John Mackey's last days206Half-man, a styrofoam mannequin, disappears at the Harmony Village garage sale209Cooking for fifty : crisis or opportunity?212Art at Rosewind : joy and ruckus220Growing a garden, growing a community226How the work gets done234Let cohousing put you in the driver's seat239It takes a village to raise a mother240The annual retreat is here!250Celebrating a wedding at Greyrock Commons252Winter solstice : warm and cold255Dancing our story259
